Withiel nr. Bodmin
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Results: 8 records
B01: symbol - shield - in a circle
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B02: design element - motifs - floral - flower - in a circle
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B03: symbol - cross - saltire - in a rectangle
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BU01: design element - motifs
Scene Description: one on each panel of the underbowl
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LB01: design element - motifs
Scene Description: one or two on each side of the octagonal stem
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LB02: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - 8?
Scene Description: arches or niches
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view of font and cover
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © www.caerkief.co.uk, 2005
Image Source: Digital image from www.caerkief.co.uk
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10974WIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century -- 12th-century [lower base?] [composite font], Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Clement
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Clement
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A389, 8 km SW of Bodmin
Additional Comments: composite font? 12th-century lower base?
Font Notes:
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Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "an ancient font enriched with sculpture". Cox (1912) writes: "The 15th cent, font has octagonal bowl sculptured with symbols of the Passion; part of base apparently belonged to a Norm[an] font." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. C15, with coarsely chip-carved ornamental motifs." The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with slightly rounded sides and a round underbowl, the whole surface decorated with different motifs: foliage, shields, etc.; raised on an octagonal pedestal base profusely decorated as well; small octagonal plinth, plain; wooden font cover, flat and plain, modern.
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
Notes: flat and plain, modern
REFERENCES
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50912] [accessed 7 December 2006]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 241