Ruan Minor No. 2

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B01: design element - motifs - zigzag

described as 'sunk chevron' in Blight (1856) [cf. Font notes]
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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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10877RUA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Ruan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Rumon of Tavistock [aka Ronan, Ruadan, Ruan]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located NE of Landewednack, in the Lizard peninsula
Additional Comments: recycled font: the base is probably of a later date
Font Notes:
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, p. 328
  • Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 209
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 154
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 80