Manaccan No. 2

Results: 4 records

view of basin

Scene Description: The old basin is behind the newer font

view of church exterior - southeast view

view of church interior - chancel arch

view of church interior - plan

INFORMATION

FontID: 10889MAN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Manaccus and St. Dunstan
Church Patron Saints: St. Manaccus [aka Mancus]? or St. Manacca [abbess], and St. Dunstan [also to St. Antoninus?]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B3293, 12 km E of Helston, in the Lizard Peninsula
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [earlier in the vicarage grounds]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman / Early English?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for his image of this font.
Blight (1862) notes: "The bowl of the old font is preserved in the vicarage grounds." Cox (1912) writes: "Font is modern; old font was ejected by rector about half a century ago, and used as a garden flower-pot; see Arch. Journal, 1861, p. 45." The Kerrier Deanery web site [www.kerrierdeanery.co.uk] has the folowing: "The font is of a later date than the first Norman church -- beside it is a bowl which may well have been from the original building. As in many other cases, it was found in the Vicarage grounds and returned to the church in 1969." [NB: the old basin can be just discerned behind the later (?) font in the image provided below]. Pevsner (1970) does not mention a font of any sort in this church.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: round?
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round?

REFERENCES

Blight, John Thomas, "Cornish churches [pt. 5]", [213], September 1862, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1862, pp. 255-266; r["References"]
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912