Lanteglos-by-Camelford / Nanseglos

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14278LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Julitta, Lanteglos-by-Camelford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Julitta [the previous chapel was dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket]
Church Address: Lanteglos by Camelford Church, Camelford PL32 9RG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1840 212665
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located E of the A39, 4-5 km from Camelford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Font Notes:
Noted in 'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851): "There is, I believe, (for I speak from memory,) a very wellproportioned [sic] example in the church of S. Thomas & Becket, Lanteglos juxta Camelford: this, as well as I remember, is good, and early in the style" [Third-Pointed, i.e., Perpendicular]. Murray's Handbook for travellers […] (1865) notes two fonts in this location: "The fine octangular font is E[arly] E[nglish]"; the second font: "A Norm[an] font is preserved at the Vicarage" [this font is probably the one that was moved later to Washaway -- cf. Index entry]. Cox (1912) notes a font of the Decorated period in this church: "15th cent. fine font is octagonal, with traceried panels ; it is 3 ft. in diameter" [NB: this discrepancy of period vs. date -Decorated vs. 15th century- happens often in Cox' Cornwall book]. Illustrated in A Sanp in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/LanteglosbyC.html] [accessed 18 November 2009]. The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with traceried panels (ogee, quatrefoil, etc.) on the sides, and simpler window tracery on the octagonal stem; on a splaying lower base nad plinth, both octagonal, the plinth with kneeling extension. The font is probably late 14th- or early 15th-century.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in feet in Cox (1912)]

REFERENCES

  • "On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; p. 100
  • Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 18, 145
  • Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865, p. 212 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=V_YGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=%22roborough+stone%22&source=bl&ots=2ZhOkO8ZIn&sig=RriwKcw-zwLPfFdGUaHE7WccPgU&hl=en&ei=QRWkSZHXMYjTnQe2ud2pBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPR5,M1] [accessed 24 February 2009]