Mullion No. 2 / St. Mullion / Saint Mullion
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Image Source: Sketch by Blight in the original 1862 article in The Gentleman's Magazine
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10823MUL
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mullion
Church Patron Saints: St. Mellanus [aka Maliane, Melanus, Melina, Mullion? Mullins? Moling?]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3296, 11-12 km S of Helston (dir. Lizard Point)
Font Location in Church: In the south porch, to the right of the entrance
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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Blight (1862) notes that "the stoup remains in good preservation; his illustration shows a wall-mounted polygonal basin, three sides protruding, the rest built into the cavity of the wall. Noted also in Cox (1912). Noted in the Cornwall Churches web site [www.kerrrierdeanery.co.uk]: "holy water stoup to the right of the entrance". [cf. Index entry for Mullion No. 1 for an early baptismal font listed for this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: polygonal (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
REFERENCES
Blight, John Thomas, "Cornish churches [pt. 4]", 213, July 1862, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1862, pp. 21-31; p. 29
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912