St. Just-in-Penwith / Saint Just in Penwith
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph in www/cornwall.netfirms.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission from Steve Beazley
INFORMATION
FontID: 10932JUS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Just
Church Patron Saints: St. Just
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located near Land's End
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century, Post-Reformation
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RotsWeb.com, for his image of this font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Cox (1912): "The octagonal 14th cent, font is of Pentewan stone." But, Pevsner (1970) states: "Font. New. The date C14 cannot be accepted." The Wasley web site [http://homepages.tesco.net/~k.wasley/Just_Penzance.htm] describes the font as "of Pentewan stone somewhat crudely carved [...] believed [...] of post Reformation date." The baptismal font consists of a rather shallow basin of square shape, but the chamfered angles make it almost octagonal, the sides decorated with several motifs; it is raised on an octagonal pedestal base of three volumes, all plain, and an octagonal plinth. It appears to be either a later work, as suggested by Pevsner, or one case of total re-tooling and re-carving of an earlier font. Flat wooden cover with metal decoration and reinforcement; 17th-century?
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, Pentewan stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
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