Temple nr. Bodmin

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10960TEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Catherine
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A30, on the Bodmin Moor, between Bodmin and Launceston
Additional Comments: recycled font : Norman basin mounted on a modern base / disused font: a tree growing in was reported ca. 1865
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in Blight (1858): "The font here depicted, lies on the floor, overgrown with briars and weeds". The font appears to be a tub-shaped basin round and plain, standing directly on the ground. Murray's Handbook for travellers […] (1865) describes church as "a miserable hamlet on a manor which belonged to the Knights Templars. They had a ch[urch] here which long since fell into decay, but still remains as a ruin. It is of late Norm[an] period. The font lies in the midst, with a young tree growing out if it." Cox (1912) writes: "The circular Norm[an] bowl of font, of Pentewan stone, 26 in. in diameter, is the one relic of the old church." Pevsner (1970) notes: "Font. Plain, circular Norman bowl (cf. Boyton)." The web site of the Grand Priory of Knights Templar in England and Wales [www.templars.org.uk]. link to church, Cornwall, informs that "the base of the old Norman font is preserved in the inner doorway". As it stands now [2003] the font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin that has had several repairs around the upper rim, mounted on an octagonal pedestal base and a square lower base, these two modern; the flat wooden lid is also modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for his image of this font.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Pentewan stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain, modern

REFERENCES

  • Blight, John Thomas, Ancient crosses and other antiquities in the east of Cornwall, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1858, p. 109 and ill.
  • Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 224
  • Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865, p. 210 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=V_YGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=%22roborough+stone%22&source=bl&ots=2ZhOkO8ZIn&sig=RriwKcw-zwLPfFdGUaHE7WccPgU&hl=en&ei=QRWkSZHXMYjTnQe2ud2pBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPR5,M1] [accessed 24 February 2009]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 218