Tywardreath

Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
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Results: 3 records
B01: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Gothic arches - 8
INFORMATION
FontID: 10971TYW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for his image of this font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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.
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