Norman Font - St Mabyn - St Mabyn, Cornwall - Romanesque Architecture on Waymarking.com

The parish church, dedicated to St Mabena (St Mabyn) of Norman origins with just the font surviving, although the existing fabric of the church probably dates largely from the late 15th century.

The font is one of Norman table-top type. It has a circular basin which is hollowed into a square block with blind arcade decoration. It is set on a round shaft ornamented with 5-petal rosettes.

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"St Mabyn Church is a Grade I listed late 15th-century Church. The church is dedicated to Saint Mabena, who was regarded in local tradition as one of the many children of Brychan, a Welsh saint and King of Brycheiniog in the 5th century.

The current church replaced an earlier one also dedicated to Mabyn. Mabyn is listed alongside several other local saints with churches dedicated to them in the 12th-century Life of Saint Nectan, suggesting that the earlier church had already been established at that time."

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Web site proof of Romanesque or Pre-Romanesque features: [Web Link] Type of building (structure): Church Address: St Mabyn's church, St Mabyn, Cornwall, England, PL30 3BA Date of origin: Not listed Architect(s) if known: Not listed Romanesque or Pre-Romanesque: Not listed

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