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INFORMATION

FontID: 10965TRE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A395, 7-8 km W of Launceston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, opposite the S entrance
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Cox (1912) reports a font "of Poplyphant stone" in this church. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, completely plain, square with chamfered corners." The square basin is also chamfered along the lower rim to form a rudimentary underbowl, and it is raised on a square pedestal base and a square lower base or plinth. A recent photograph of the font [www.caerkief.co.uk] shows an unidentified stone object at the foot of the font; it appears to have a drain [not listed in this Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, polyphant stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

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

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970