St. Kew / Saint Kew
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Results: 6 records
B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: two on each side
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
Scene Description: two on each side of the stem of the base
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the lower base
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10934KEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Great [earlier dedication may have been to St. Kew and St. Doghow]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just off the A39, just S of St. Endellion
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cox (1912): "Octagonal font good Perp[endicular] design, with quatrefoils in panels." Described in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Octagonal, C15, with quatrefoil panels." The font consists of an octagonal basin with protruding mouldings at both ends, between which are panels decorated with two quatrefoil motifs per side; graded chamfered underbowl; octagonal stem with two Gothic arches per side; heavily moulded lower base; plinth appears modern. Flat wooden lid with metal decoration and reinforcements, probably relatively modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RotsWeb.com, for his image of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 133
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 185