An hourglass shaped stone font with wooden pyramid shaped font cover.

An hourglass shaped font with zigzag, plait & palmette patterns.

St Marnarch’s Church, Lanreath Cornwall

A Norman font with Jacobean cover

The guidebook describes it as carved from Catacleuse, a quaetz-porphyry stone, from the Padstow area of Cornwall

The soft light highlighted the patterns & traces of colouring (medieval or later?).

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