Tresco

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10943TRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: [originally probably from the Benedictine Priory of St Nicholas]
Font Location in Church: [the fragment is built into a wall of the garden at Tresco Abbey]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 45-50 km SW of Land's End and the Cornish mainland
Font Notes:
Noted in Pevsner (1970): "In the garden, built into a wall, the fragment of a font, Norman, with blank arcading."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 210