St. Erth / Lannudhno
Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2003
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Results: 2 records
B01: symbol - cross - saltire - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2003
Image Source: photograph taken [2003?] by Steve Beazley [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cornwallpics/sterth/pages/Font.htm] [accessed 16 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Scene Description: only the basin is original
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2003
Image Source: photograph taken [2003?] by Steve Beazley [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cornwallpics/sterth/pages/Font.htm] [accessed 16 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15720ERT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Erth
Church Patron Saints: St. Ercius [aka Erc, Ercus, Erth]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located S of Phillack, E of Ludgvan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for the photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Cox (1912): "Squared bowl of font, found under floor in 1874, is Norm[an], base shafts modern." The square basin has pairs of saltires on each side; raised on a modern base consisting of a brad central shaft and four outer colonnettes; on a sqaure lower base, also modern.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912