Manaccan No. 1

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view of church exterior - south door

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Image Source: Sketch by Blight in the original 1862 article in The Gentleman's Magazine

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - chancel arch

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view of church interior - plan

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view of font

Scene Description: Note the object behind the font [cf. Font notes for claim of earlier font]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10794MAN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Manaccus and St. Dunstan
Church Patron Saints: St. Manaccus [aka Mancus]? or St. Manacca [abbess], and St. Dunstan [also to St. Antoninus?]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B3293, 12 km E of Helston, in the Lizard Peninsula
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: , Medieval? / Modern?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for the photograph of this font.
Cox (1912), who mentions two fonts in this church, notes that the present one is modern [cf. Index entry for Manaccan No. 2 for the Norman font receovered from the vicary (?) grounds]. Baptismal font made of granite consisting of a hemispherical basin raised on a thin pedestal and round lower base, all plain. Two-step plnth, the upper squate, the lower rectangular. The font, at least the basin, may be early, but appears to have been re-tooled. Blight (1862) does not mention this font. The Kerrier Deanery web site [www.kerrierdeanery.co.uk] has the folowing: "The font is of a later date than the first Norman church". Pevsner (1970) does not mention a font of any sort in this church.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912