Llanidan
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B01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: large and in high relief, all around the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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BBL01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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R01: design element - motifs - groove - 2
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Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 30 on p. 55)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01005LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: [cf. FontNotes]
Cognate Fonts: The font at Llangeinwen nearby has similar ornamentation and may be from the same workshop [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nidan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nidan [aka Idan]
Church Address: Llanfairpwllgwyngyll LL61 6HJ, United Kingdom
Site Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just E of Llangeinwen, across from Caernarfon and a few km up the northern bank of the Menai Straits
Additional Comments: abandoned font / restored font
Font Notes:
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The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of July-Dec, 1860) reports the visit of the Cambrian Archaeological Society, and the comments by a Mr. G.T. Clark on the church of Llanidan, "which he declared to be in a very discreditable state. There was an old font within it which ought not to be rolling about in the manner they had found it". Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped (quasi cylindrical) baptismal font of the Norman period, ornamented with a high-relief foliage pattern of "decided Classic feeling"; it is raised on a plain square lower base/plinth. Peter Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003) suggests that this font and the one at Llangeinwen may have been produced by the same workshop. This relationship with Llangeinwen, as well as with the fonts from Llantrisant and Llangwyllog is also noted in Thurlby (2006) who suggests a date in the last third of the 12th century for all of them.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 416218 5892781
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.177778, -4.253611
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 10′ 40″ N, 4° 15′ 13″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: tub-shaped, round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: p. 79 fn66
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 232 and fig. 335
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 17, 54 and fig. 30 on p. 55