Llanfihangel-y-Pennant / Llanvihangel-y-Pennant [orig. from Castell y Bere?]
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BBU01: design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop
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design element - motifs - scallop
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 01002LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Tywyn LL36 9TS, United Kingdom
Country Name: Wales
Location: Gwynedd
Directions to Site: Located off the B4405, just N of Abergynolwyn, 15 km SSW of Dolgellau
Historical Region: formerly Caernarfonshire and/or Merionethshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: many such fonts in Pembrokeshire
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Lewis' Dictionary of 1833 does not mention the font here; it is reported in the National Gazetteer of 1868 simply as "an ancient font" in St Michael's. Noted and illustrated in Thurlby (2006) as an example in Merioneth of a type of medieval font [table-top with scalloped underbowl] quite common in Pembrokeshire. Wellings [www.walesdirectory.co.uk] [accessed 28 September 2009] illustrates the font at St. Michael's church with the caption: "The old font at St Michael's church, believed to be from Castell y Bere." The font is of the table-top type, but rectangular rather than square, the narrow sides with four trumpet scallops on the underside, the wide sides with five; raised on a plain cylindrical stem, and a rectangular lower base that replicates the scallops of the basin on its upper surface. The plain rectangular cover appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.66106211,
-3.96556708
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 39′ 39.824″ N,
3° 57′ 56.041″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Notes: square
REFERENCES
The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006