Gerrans No. 1
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10791GER
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Gerent
Church Patron Saints: St. Gerent [aka Gerendus, Gerens, Gerrans]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km NE of Falmouth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Not unlike the Egloshayle font, also in Cornwall
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in 'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851): "the very curious font in the church of S. Gerennius, Gerrans. The bowl, which is quite square and flat externally, and rounded internally, is supported by five plain shafts, the central one being very large. It stands upon a slightly moulded plinth, and a large granite step. The sides of the bowl are ornamented with arcades, cut in low relief. A good pyramidal cover of oak has recently been provided." Cox (1912) notes: "Square arcaded bowl of font is Norm[an]." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, square, with four shallow blank niches on each side (a simplified version of the Egloshayle type)." [cf. Index entry for Gerrans No. 2 for remains of an early stoup in this church].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
"On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; r["References"]
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970