Herodsfoot

Main image for Herodsfoot

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Results: 9 records

view of font and cover

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design element - motifs - foliage or scroll

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design element - motifs - foliage

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger A Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2014 by Roger A Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3855796] [accessed 9 September 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font cover

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - leaf or spur - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles
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view of base - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © SOSKERNOW, [2002?]
Image Source: www.caerkief.co.uk
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10825HER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [originally from the chapel of St. Martin at Respryn]
Font Location in Church: Inside the 19th-century church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: Both church and parish were created in 1850, after the 1840's mining boom
Church Address: Herodsfoot, Cornwall, PL14 4QZ, UK
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located halfway between the B3254 to the E and the B3359 to the W, 5 km SW of Liskeard [the now demolished chapel of St Martin at Respryn was located near Landyrock]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Additional Comments: recycled font: originally from a nearby now-demolished chapel MUST USE
Font Notes:
No entry for Herodsfoot found in the Domwesday survey. Cox (1912) lists a font of the Early English period in this church. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "C14 font, not of especially good workmanship, but of interesting design, with a circular bowl and a prieze of foliage scrolls along the upper rim. It is from the ruined chapel of St. Martin at Respryn, St. Winnow." The basin is raised on a plain cylidrical pedestal and a lower base consisting of a fat roll moulding on a square lower volume with spur/foliage motif at the angles. The wooden cover consists of a round base with carved edge atop which is a four-rib crown with an eagle finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RotsWeb.com, for his image of this font.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 392486 5586092
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.417007, -4.513351
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 25′ 1.22″ N, 4° 30′ 48.07″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: unknown
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 18
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 82