St. Minver / Saint Minver

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10940MIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Menefreda
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Menefreda [aka Menefrida, Minefreda, Minver]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 19 km from Camelford, a little farther from Bodmin
Font Notes:
Noted in Cox (1912) as a "good octagonal Perp[endicular] font". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Octagonal, C15, with tracery panels." Octagonal font has blank shields and floral motifs inscribed in quatrefoils alternating around the basin sides; simple trefoiled window tracery on the underbowl chamfer and the sides of the stem; moulding below and splaying lower base, also octagonal. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern. Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Minver.html] [accessed 19 November 2009]http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Minver.html]

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. 181
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 196