Helland

INFORMATION

FontID: 10824HEL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helena [aka St. Helen]
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located of (W) the A30, 5 km N of Bodmin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, S side
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
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