Little Petherick / St. Petrock Minor / Nanfesten / Nansfountayn
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
BU01: design element - motifs - tracery
UB01: design element - motifs - tracery
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15732PET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Paternus [aka St. Petrock]
Church Patron Saints: St. Paternus of Avranches [aka Padarn, Padarnus / Pair] / Petrock
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located S of Padstow, W of St. Issey
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cornwallpics/l, for the photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cox (1912) as a baptismal font of the 15th century. The octagonal basin has motifs (?) in quatrefoils and other tracery on its sides, underbowl chamfer and stem; moulded octagonal lower base. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid, with crocketed arrises and finial; dat unknown.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912