Tremaine / Tremayne (Cornwall)
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BBU01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - 3
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10962TRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [altered], Norman [altered]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Winwalloe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Winwaloe [aka Guénolé de Landévennec, Grimolay, Guignolet, Gwenole, Guingalan, Guingalois, Guinglin, Guingualoeus, Guingaloué, Gwenole, Gwennole, Uuingualoeus, Walloy, Winnoc, Winwallus, Winwaloeus]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A395, WNW of Launceston, towards the Devon border
Additional Comments: recycled font? may consist of two hemispherical basins ? Or as noted in Cox (1912), a shortened shaft? MUST USE
Font Notes:
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Cox (1912) writes: "Small early Norm[an] font, bowl encircled by cable moulding ; shaft has been lowered." Tyrrell-Green (1928) gives a list of fonts in which a rope moulding constitutes "the sole adornment": Bierton (Bucks.), Egloskerry (Cornwall), Launcells Cornwall), Tremaine (Cornwall), Wick (Glam), Tresmere (Cornwall), Notgrove (Gloucs.), Folkton (NYorks.), Backwell (Somerset), Congresbury (Somerset). Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Circular with cable moulding, like Egloskerry." The font appears to consist of two volumes: a hemispheric basin decorated with a thick rope moulding at the upper basin side, raised on a hemispheric base that looks very much like another basin upside-down, and is decorated with three raised mouldings; the flat wooden cover appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for his image of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 231
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 225
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 79