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INFORMATION

FontID: 10836TIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Materiana
Church Patron Saints: St. Madrun [aka Materiana, Madryn, Marcelliana, Mattriana, Merteriana]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the westernmost side of the B3263, in the W coast of Cornwall, about 30 km W of Launceston
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 9th - 10th century, Pre-Conquest
Cognate Fonts: The font at Potterne (Wilts.)?
Reported in Thomas (1983) as two "fragments of a tub font of volcanic greenstone, probably tenth century from the foundations of the pre-Norman church, Tintagel churchyard [...] The font is of the 'tub' variety, with small groove inside the rim for a circular lid, a central drain-hole and a raised footring showing that it stood, not on a pedestal or shaft, but on paved ground." Thomas (ibid.) adds that the font at St. Mary's, Potterne is "slightly larger though otherwise very close match to the Tintagel font". Blair (2005), after Thomas (1983) writes: "A tub-shaped font of volcanic greenstone, whose fragments were re-used in the footings of a probably late eleventh- or twelth-century chapel at Tintagel (Cornwall), might be claimed as pre-Conquest on these stratigraphic grounds." [cf. Index entries for Tintagel Nos. 2 & 3 for two other fonts listed for this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Tintagel greenstone / volvanic greenstone (local)
Number of Pieces: fragments
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 71 cm*
Basin Total Height: 38 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: * [34 cm diameter of the lower protrusion]
Notes on Measurements: * [Thomas (1983: caption under fig. 85)]

REFERENCES

Blair, John, The Church in Anglo-Saxon society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
Thomas, Charles, English Heritage book of Tintagel: Arthur and archaeology, London: B.T. Batsford / English Heritage, 1983