St. Just-in-Roseland / Saint Just in Roseland
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10933JUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1490?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Just
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Just
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of St. Anthony, in the Roseland peninsula, S of Truro
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RotsWeb.com, for his image of this font, and to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of the church
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- "On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; p. 100
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 130
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 184