Stand Out

Another from yesterday.
Most cathedrals have one thing that stands out that people come to see, Truro Cathedral, a young cathedral has the reredos and this, the font.

The red Breccia marble of the font which sits in the Baptistery came from North Africa and is particularly fine. A feature of Breccia marble is that it forms where broken, angular fragments of rock or mineral debris accumulate, resulting in a variety of sizes of pieces within the whole.
The font sits on steps of marble which are surrounded by the magnificent marble mosaic from northern Italy, laid with such care and skill by the Italian craftsmen.
All the way around the Breccia base of the font are small supporting pillars of dark green serpentine rock from the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall.
It looks amazing and depending on the light it can appear to ‘sparkle’.

Josh came with me out to the Eden garden, breakfast on the way there and a detour on the way home to pick up a Royal Engineers blazer in Bodmin.

We enjoyed a takeaway for dinner, chilli beef burritos from Habaneros, one of Joshua’s favourites.