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

FontID: 10934KEW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Great [earlier dedication may have been to St. Kew and St. Doghow]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located just off the A39, just S of St. Endellion
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RotsWeb.com, for his image of this font.
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.

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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970