St. Minver / Saint Minver
Results: 5 records
B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 4?
B02: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 4?
BU01: design element - motifs - tracery
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
UB01: design element - motifs - tracery
INFORMATION
FontID: 10940MIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Menefreda
Church Patron Saints: St. Menefreda [aka Menefrida, Minefreda, Minver]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located 19 km from Camelford, a little farther from Bodmin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
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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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970