St. Mewan No. 2 / Saint Mewan
INFORMATION
FontID: 10937MEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mewan
Church Patron Saints: St. Mewan [aka Meen]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
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]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] -- 12th century [base only] [composite font, Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
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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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970