North Tamerton / Tre war Damer

Results: 2 records

LB01: design element - motifs - spur - 4

R01: design element - motifs - flat moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 15739TAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Denis
Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SSW of Holsworthy
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Noted in Cox (1912): "Granite font has plain circular bowl resting on octagonal shaft; it is coeval with fabric" [i.e., of the church; first half of the 15th century]. There is a flat moulding at the upper rim; the stem is octagonal-to-square, with spurs at the lower end; on a two-step quadrangular plinth (or combination lower base and plinth).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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