Lanteglos-by-Camelford / Nanseglos

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.