Mawnan nr. Falmouth

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10870MAW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Maunanus and St. Stephen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Maunanus [aka Maunan, Mawnan] and St. Stephen
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Rosemullion Head, SSW of Falmouth, on the N side of the mouth of the Helford river, S tip of Falmouth Bay
Font Notes:
Cox (1912) reports a "small octagonal granite font" of the late 15th century in this church. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "The Font is octagonal, C15". The font has an octagonal basin of tapering sides decorated with mouldings and floral (?) motifs, on an octagonal stem with mouldings at both ends, and a splaying lower base also octagonal; on a modern octagonal plinth with kneeling extension. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat; appears modern. [NB: there is another church, dedicated to St. Michael, in St. Mawnan Smith; it has a cylindrical mounted font of the 19th century; the church itself is modern, of the 1870s]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 173
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 116