Treslothan

Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of three Cornish fonts [St. Winnow and St. Ives are the others] that “are nearly alike, and apparently of the fourteenth century, being round, with four angels supporting shields, and inscriptions in text hand: those of Camborne and St. Ives have four lions at the base [...]. The inscription on the [...] font run thus: --‘Ecce karissimi de Deo vero baptizabuntur Spiritu Sc’o;’ with several single letters.” [NB: cf. also the font at St. Anthony-in-Meneage, aka St. Antony-in-Kirrier, for another Cornish font with identical inscription]. Lysons (ibid.) write of "the old font of Camborne, now standing in the pleasure-ground at Tehidy", but the font may have been returned to the Camborne church by the time Cox and Harvey [cf. infra] visited Camborne. Noted in Blight (1862). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Cox (1912) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period Thomas (1983) gives the fonts at Tintagel, Sithney and Germoe as similar to this font [cf. corresponding Index entries for Tintagel No. 3, Sithney and Germoe No. 2(?). Pevsner (1970) notes: "Font from Camborne church, C15, granite, with four angels hlding shields and an ornamental band connecting them. So summary and bold in the treatment of the hard material that it looks decicedly modern (cf. St Ives)." [NB: this font is also listed in this Index as Camborne No. 2] [NB: the same listing includes a font of the Norman period for this locality]. [We are grateful to the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library for access to the copy of Lysons’ Magna Britannia, and to Jim Ingram, of the Preservation Services, Robarts Library, for the digital imaging of Lysons’ illustrations]