Little Petherick / St. Petrock Minor / Nanfesten / Nansfountayn
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
BU01: design element - motifs - tracery
UB01: design element - motifs - tracery
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15732PET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Paternus [aka St. Petrock]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Paternus of Avranches [aka Padarn, Padarnus / Pair] / Petrock
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of Padstow, W of St. Issey
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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cornwallpics/l, for the photograph of this font
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, p. 197