Porthilly / Porthhyli

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Results: 4 records

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: very broad, almost like ribbing between the two mouldings

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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Malcolm, in Dorset Camera [http://www.dorsetcamera.co.uk/assets/images/_MG_7742.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2020]

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - cross

Scene Description: 10th-12thC churchyard cross [cf. Historic England [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1014624] [accessed 10 February 2020]]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Theroadislong, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2014 by Theroadislong [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Porthilly_cross.JPG] [accessed 10 February 2020]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Michael's, Porthilly. A lovely little church in a splendid setting next to the beach at Porthilly, near Rock, Cornwall. The church dates from the C12th and much survives from this time though there have been additions "

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2006 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/150335] [accessed 10 February 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the new lining wraps around the upper rim

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dorset Camera, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Malcolm, in Dorset Camera [http://www.dorsetcamera.co.uk/assets/images/_MG_7742.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2020]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing [NB: author's web site okays reproduction with proper credit]

INFORMATION

FontID: 10876POR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Porthilly, Cornwall, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located WNW of Wadebridge, across the Camel estuary from Padstow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: similar to the font at St. Enodoc [cf. FontNotes]
Cox (1912) writes: "Small circular Norm[an] font almost exactly resembles that of St. Enodoc in the same parish ; bowl was found under flooring at restoration, it is 25 in. in diameter." Succintly noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Simple, Norman." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Porthilly.html] [accessed 20 November 2009]. The font consists of a plain hemispherical basin, a large rope moulding at the centre ring, and a plain round-to-square lower base. The wooden cover is tound and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern; modern too is the lead lining of the basin. [***NB: this may be the same font listed in bsi as st michael;s [Font ID: 01495MIC]***]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.5414, -4.914
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 32′ 29.04″ N, 4° 54′ 50.4″ W
UTM: 30U 364381 5600578

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined [modern lining]
Diameter (includes rim): 63.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]

LID INFORMATION

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

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970