St. Mewan No. 2 / Saint Mewan

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10937MEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, basin only
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [basin only] -- 12th century [base only] [composite font, Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mewan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mewan [aka Meen]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A390, just W of St. Austell [the parish is now [2005] part of the Team Ministry of Mevagissey and St Mewan]
Additional Comments: recycled font: 14th-century basin on a Norman base -- composite font
Font Notes:
Noted in ox (1912): "Base of octagonal font is Norm, but bowl c. 1400." Noted in Pevsner (1970) as "an octagonal font with tracery panels, standing on the Norman base". The font consists of a hemispherical basin decorated with varied tracery patterns on the sides (one of them is a painted shield) and underbowl, raised on a circular pedestal base with mouldings at the lower end, on a square lower base with chamfered corners, the sides decorated with pairs of scrolls, obviously an added element from an earlier period. Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Mewan.html] [accessed 19 November 2009] [cf. Index entry for St Mewan No. 1 for the Norman font fragment in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?
Notes: octagonal pyramid with cerved sides; date unknown

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 176
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 191