Pendarves / Carwinnen / Pendarvis

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14279PEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel at Pendarves Quoit
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: Camborne TR14 9LR, UK
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B3393, 3-4 km S of Camborne
Font Notes:
Murray's Handbook for travellers […] (1865) notes "an old font" located in a new chapel erected in 1842 on the site of an ancient chapel in Pendarves Quoit, aka Carwinnen Cromlech.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865, p. 289 / [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]