Budock / Budock Water / Dowr Budhek / Plywvudhek
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph tin Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Cornwall Churches/Budock Church Cornwall - St. Budocus/index.htm] [accessed 19 June 2012]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cornish Churches, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Cornwall Churches/Budock Church Cornwall - St. Budocus/index.htm] [accessed 19 June 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cornish Churches, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph tin Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Cornwall Churches/Budock Church Cornwall - St. Budocus/index.htm] [accessed 19 June 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18071BUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Buock
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Budoc [aka Beuzec, Budeaux, Budhek, Budock, Budocus, Buoc]
Church Address: Budock Water, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 5BZ
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km W of Falmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Historical Region: Hundred of Kirrier [Kerrier/Kerriar]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (from the 12th-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Cornwall Churches/Budock Church Cornwall - St. Budocus/index.htm] [accessed 19 June 2012]: octagonal basin with cusped quatrefoils on the sides, raised on an octagonal pedestal base decorated with tracery; on a wide octagonal plinth. Flat octagonal wooden cover. All of it modern. The Budock Parish Council [www.budockparish.net/area.htm] [accessed 19 June 2012] notes: "The earliest recorded rector of Budock Parish was John de Plesseto in 1207". [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com] for the photographs of this church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 349940 5557446
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.15023, -5.10048
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 9′ 0.83″ N, 5° 6′ 1.73″ W