St. Just-in-Roseland / Saint Just in Roseland

Noted in 'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851) as a font similar to those at Zennor and Mabe, "octagonal and supported upon a plain shaft of like form. The panels in the sides are quatrefoiled. A cover of anomalous design somewhat resembling that of a tureen has been lately provided for this font; the effect, of course, is very poor. The date of this font is probably circa 1490." Cox (1912) reports a 15th-century octagonal font with a 17th-century cover in this church. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Octagonal, with uninteresting quatrefoil panels; C15." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/JustinR.html] [accessed 17 November 2009]. The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides, chamfered at the bottom, decorated with a quatrefoil-in-a-circle on each panel; the octagonal stem is plain, as is the octagonal lower base. Low-dome wooden cover with gilded pointed finial.