Baldhu
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15747BAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1848?
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Notes: the 19th-century church was reported closed and boarded up by May 2008, and appears to have been later converted into private dwellings
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Font Notes:
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'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851) notes the font at St. Michael, Baldhu, as a modern imitation of a medieval font. The church is now [2009] closed [NB: we found no record of an earlier church on this site].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- "On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; p. 102