Treverbyn

INFORMATION

FontID: 15745TRE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church [old church, now disappeared]

Country Name: England

Location: Cornwall, South West

Directions to Site: The old church, now disappeared, was located in what is now a field. The new church was dedicate in the mid-19th century

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851) notes the font at St. Peter, Treverbyn, as a modern imitation of a medieval font. The modern font in the modern church [the old church has disappeared, probably with the old font] is illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Treverbyn.html] [accessed 27 November 2009].

REFERENCES

"On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; p. 102