Lewannick
Results: 3 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle
Scene Description: one of several geometric motifs adorning this font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RCMHE, [1983?]
Image Source: Thomas (1983)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
B02: design element - motifs - coil or spiral
Scene Description: a labyrinth?
B03: symbol - pentagram - 2
Scene Description: a/p Pevsner's identification [cf. Font notes]
INFORMATION
FontID: 10839LEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located E of Altarnun
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cox (1912): "Late Norm, font is octagonal, with geometrical pattern on each face, diameter 36 in." Thomas (1983) illustrates a "hexafoil rosette [that] occurs on Cornish twelfth-century fonts, for example at Lewannick". The CISP [www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/site/wnck.html] reports (after Thomas, 1994) an "ornate Norman font" in the new church at Lewannick. Pevsner (1970) writes: "Font. Large, octagonal, Norman, with some unusual ornamental motifs, for example a coil (labyrinth?), and twice a pentagram." Illustrated in http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Lewannick.html [accessed 12 November 2009]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat; modern?
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970
Thomas, Charles, And shall these mute stones speak?: post-Roman inscriptions in western Britain, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1994
Thomas, Charles, English Heritage book of Tintagel: Arthur and archaeology, London: B.T. Batsford / English Heritage, 1983