St. Allen / Allen / Eglosallen / Eglosalan

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - motifs - spur - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 15714ALL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Allen
Church Patron Saints: St. Allen [aka Alleyne, Alunus]]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located near Perranzabuloe, N of Truro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: [composite font], [composite]
Cox (1912) notes: "Font is a 'make-up'; Mr. Seddling thinks present square bowl is base of old font." The suggestion makes sense, as the large square basin has the octagonal-to-square design found in bases of some Norman-period fonts, where a spur-like cut in the corners makes the square block octagonal. The support here is a thing circular shaft totally unsuited to the basin; the lower base is also of old design, circular at the top and square below. The wooden cover is of ogee design, octagonal with a ball finial. Illustrated in [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Allen-St.html] [accessed 13 November 2009]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal-to-square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal-to-square

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912