Tywardreath
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B01: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Gothic arches - 8
Scene Description: arches or niches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
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Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
Image Source: Digital image from Steve Beazley and RootsWeb.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10971TYW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A390, just N of the A3082, WNW of Fowey, just inland from the Par Sands in the S coast of Cornwall
Font Notes:
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No font mentioned in Cox (1912). Noted ijn Pevsner (1970): "Font. Octagonal, C15, with shields in quatrefoils in circles." The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides, each decorated as indicated in Pevsner; concave underbowl chamfer; octagonal pedestal base decorated with a Gothic niche on each side; wooden cover, flat and plain.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for his image of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 236-237