Tresmeer / Tresmere

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BBU01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 10964TRE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [formerly St. Winwaloe]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra [earlier dedication to St. Winwolus, aka Winwaloe]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A395, 10 km WNW of Launceston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Noted in Cox (1912): "curious early Norm[an] font hewn out of triangular block of Purbeck marble" [cf. infra]. 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). Described in Cox (1912): "the Norman font […] of unique triangular shape, hewn out of a block of Purbeck" [NB: the basin and pedestal base are round; it is actually the lower end of the lower base that is triangular in shape]. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "The font is circular, with one cable moulding close to the top."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928