Tuckingmill

INFORMATION

FontID: 10972TUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [originally from St Derwa's Chapel, in Mendarva]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Tuckingmill is actually a suburb of Camborne, on the A3047 [the church is on Pendarves Street]
Font Location in Church: In the 19th-century church at Tuckingmill
Date: ca. 1100?
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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