Tuckingmill
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10972TUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1100?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [originally from St Derwa's Chapel, in Mendarva]
Font Location in Church: In the 19th-century church at Tuckingmill
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Tuckingmill is actually a suburb of Camborne, on the A3047 [the church is on Pendarves Street]
Additional Comments: recycled font: moved from a nearby chapel
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. From St Derwa's Chapel, Mendarva; c.1100 (Professor Charles Thomas}." The Cornwall Insciptions Project [www.cornwallinscriptions.co.uk] suugests a 12th-century date for the basin of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 237