Baldhu

INFORMATION

FontID: 15747BAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1848?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
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
Font Notes:
'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