Week St. Mary
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10973WEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of The Nativity of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located 12 km S of Bude, between the A39 to the W and the B3254 to the E, NW of Launceston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cox (1912): "Octagonal font bears tracery, Tudor rose, and fleur-de-lis on panels." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Octagonal, Late Gothic, with coarse carving." The Parish web site [http://www.weekstmaryvillage.co.uk/churches/church/church.htm] [accessed 25 November 2007] notes: "The font is octangular and has panels of Gothic tracery, the Tudor rose, and a fleur-de-lis." The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides and a camfered concave underbowl, raised ona a thick pedestal base, also octagonal; there are ornamental motifs on the basin panels, and the lower base is moiulded; the font stands on an octagonal plinth, and has a round wooden cover, probably modern.
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
Notes: flat and plain, with metal decoration and handle
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970