Ruan Major / Ruan Veur
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15713RUA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Rumon [in ruins]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Rumon of Tavistock [aka Ronan, Ruadan, Ruan]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of Ruan Minor, on the Lizard peninsula
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cox (1912) as an octagonal font of the Early English period [NB: the church is abandoned and in ruins; appears to have lasted as an active church until the 1940s -- we have no current information on the whereabouts of the font listed in Cox]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 18, 208