Tresco
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind
INFORMATION
FontID: 10943TRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: [originally probably from the Benedictine Priory of St Nicholas]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located 45-50 km SW of Land's End and the Cornish mainland
Font Location in Church: [the fragment is built into a wall of the garden at Tresco Abbey]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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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