Helland
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10824HEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helena [aka St. Helen]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located of (W) the A30, 5 km N of Bodmin
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cox (1912) as a plain chalice-shaped Early English font. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Plain, cup-shaped; is it C13?". Noted and illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Helland.html] [accessed 17 November 2009]: "the font is a plain circular work of granite, set in the south wall". The font consists of a shallow cylindrical basin with an indented underbowl that tapers to a thinnner circular pedestal base; on an octagonal plinth with kneeling extension. The wooden cover is round and flat, with four low ribs converging at a knob finial; date unknown.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 122