Launceston No. 1 / Lanson / Lannstefan / Dunheved
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LB01: design element - patterns - diaper
Scene Description: probably re-cut and re-carved [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
Image Source: Steve Beazley, RootsWeb.Com [http://frepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
Image Source: Steve Beazley, RootsWeb.Com [http://frepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10853LAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1525
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early) [re-cut and re-tooled], Late Perpendicular / Tudor [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Launceston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Notes: original 12thC church; much modified since and mostly re-built in the 16thC
Church Address: Church St, Launceston PL15 8AU, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1566 772101
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A388, N of the A30, near the county border with Devon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Additional Comments: 1525 [re-cut and re-tooled] -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here
Font Notes:
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Cox (1912) writes: "Font, of Pentewan stone, is also coeval with church, though it looks modern, having been mercilessly retooled and cleared of ornament during a restoration of 1852, when much screen-work and seating was also swept away. At W. end of N. aisle is mutilated bowl of a Norm. font." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Of c.1525". Illustrated in the RootsWeb page for Launceston St Mary Magdalene's [http://frepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com] The font consists of a hemispherical basin raised on a cylindrical stem and a decorated round lower base; the plinth has a rectangular extension or 'priest's stone'. Tall wooden font, octagonal with straight sides except for the pyramidal tip; ball and dove finial; counterweight mechanism to raise the cover.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RotsWeb.com, for his image of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 403835 5610460
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.638067, -4.359933
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 38′ 17.04″ N, ° 21′ 35.76″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th-19th century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 150
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 97