Ruan Minor No. 2
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B01: design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: described as 'sunk chevron' in Blight (1856) [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: Sketch by Blight in the original 1862 article in The Gentleman's Magazine
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Image Source: Sketch by Blight in the original 1862 article in The Gentleman's Magazine
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10877RUA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ruan
Church Patron Saints: St. Rumon of Tavistock [aka Ronan, Ruadan, Ruan]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located NE of Landewednack, in the Lizard peninsula
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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Blight (1856) notes the 'sunk chevron' motif "round the top of the bowl of the font in Ruan Minor". Described and illustrated in Blight (1863): "The font, with a plain zigzag ornament, is, perhaps, contemporaneous with the piscina basin" [which Bilght (ibid.) describes as "transition Norman inserted in a niche of a later date"]. Noted in Cox (1912) as a Norman font. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a Norman font decorated with a zigzag or chevron motif on the basin. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, small, with a simple zigzag motif." [NB: the Cornish Churches web site [www.kerrierdeanery.co.uk/RuanHist.htm] informs that the base is modern]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Blight, John Thomas, "Cornish churches [pt. 7]", [214], February 1863, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1863, pp. 151-159; p. 152
Blight, John Thomas, Ancient crosses and other antiquities in the west of Cornwall, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1856
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928