Llangristiolus / Llangrystyolys

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - four-arched corble table

Scene Description: with supports on every fourth arch, all around forming window-like frames for the other motifs [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 September 2017 by Monsyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglwys_Sant_Cristiolus,_Llangristiolus,_Ynys_Mon_39.jpg] [accessed 27 January 2020]

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design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

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design element - motifs - braid - diamond shape - 2-strand

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design element - patterns - interlace - chain-link - 2- or 3-strand

Scene Description: some patterns with horizontal links, some with ondulating links on other sides

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2010 by Bencherlite [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_side_of_St_Cristiolus,_Llangristiolus.jpg] [accessed 27 January 2020]

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2017 by Monsyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglwys_Sant_Cristiolus,_Llangristiolus,_Ynys_Mon_46.jpg] [accessed 27 January 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 24 on p. 53)

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2017 by Monsyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglwys_Sant_Cristiolus,_Llangristiolus,_Ynys_Mon_36.jpg] [accessed 27 January 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01004LLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Christiolus / Eglwys Sant Cristiolus

Church Patron Saints: St. Cristiolus [aka Christiolus]

Church Location: Llangristiolus, Llangefni LL77 7YE, UK

Country Name: Wales

Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd

Directions to Site: Located off the A5 and A55, 2 km S of Llangefni, about 10 km W of the Menai Bridge and Bangor, just S of the A5 -- the church is about a mile from the new village centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bangor

Historical Region: Hundred of Malltraeth

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 10th - 11th century / 12th - 13th century [basin only], Pre-Conquest? / Norman?

Cognate Fonts: somewhat similar fonts in Anglesey: St Ceinwen's, Cerrigceinwen, St Peter's, Newborough and St Beuno's, Trefdraeth [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: original church here 7thC;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period, ornamented with a set of "windows" inside which are interlace and diamond motifs; raised on a square two-step plinth/lower base. Lord, in Diwylliant (1998-2003) writes that the "Pistyll font is closest in style to that at Llangristiolus, Anglesey, but the comparison is rendered difficult by the fact that the latter font was recut during the Victorian rebuilding of the church", and dates the Pistyll font to the 10th-11th century. Noted in Rees (2003) as a font of a roaming workshop that produced also the font at Trefdraeth; dated to the 10th century. Described and illustrated in Thurlby (2006), who argues against Lord's dating of these fonts to the 10th-11th centuries, and offers instead the decoration on the Romanesque fonts at Vänge and Mårdaklev, both in Sweden, as related to the chain-link patterns on the Pistyll and Llangristiolus fonts. Thurlby (ibid.) remarks on the presence of the "four-arched corbel table" motif on this font, which he states, is most important in terms of the date of the font [...] most frequently associated with First Romanesque"; Thurlby (ibid.) argues that "Its life continued in Second Romanesque architecture and in terms of the architecture of the British Isles it is a motif of the later eleventh and twelfth century. Therefore the Llagristiolus font should be dated to the twelfth century, as suggested by Radford" [cf. AuthorNotes]. The stone is identified as 'gritstone', a coarse-grained siliceous sandstone that resembles granite. The lower support is modern, as is the wooden cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.2365, -4.3239

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 14′ 11.4″ N, 4° 19′ 26.04″ W

UTM: 30U 411641 5899398

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (gritstone)

Number of Pieces: one?

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, multilayered, with ball finial; modern

REFERENCES

The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003

Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003

Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928