St Julitta’s Font - St Materiana - Tintagel, Cornwall
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St Julitta’s Font, a Norman font bowl housed in a Lady Chapel is said to have come from St Julitta’s Chapel in the grounds of Tintagel Castle.
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Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/20/2017
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"St Julitta’s Font, a Norman font bowl housed in a Lady Chapel is said to have come from St Julitta’s Chapel in the grounds of Tintagel Castle.
According to the ‘Legend’, Materiana was the daughter of Vortimer the son of the British King Vortigern (of Wales), and later she married Ynyr, King of Gwent. However, she decided to lead a religious life and with her companions Marcelliana and Uliet (Juliot or Julitta) sailed to north Cornwall where they set about their mission to covert the local people to Christianity. St Uliet (Juliot) founded a small monastery on the eastern promontory of Tintagel Head, opposite Tintagel Castle, circa 500 AD, which was excavated by archaeologists in the 1930s. There is a church dedication to St Uliet at Llanilid in Mid Glamorgan, south Wales, where she is described as being one of the many daughters of King Brychan of Brecknock (Brecon) whose second wife was called Marcella – maybe St Marcelliana?"
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