Trefdraeth / Trevdraeth
Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2009
Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 February 2009)
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - patterns - interlace - saltire
Scene Description: on one of the panels of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Madeleine Gray, University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 February 2009)
B02: design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons - 3
Scene Description: on three of the panels of the basin; they are practical identical
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Madeleine Gray, University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 February 2009)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Madeleine Gray, University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 February 2009)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Madeleine Gray, University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 February 2009)
INFORMATION
FontID: 01006TRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Beuno
Church Patron Saints: St. Beuno [aka Bono, Bonus]
Church Location: Bodorgan LL62 5ES, United Kingdom
Country Name: Wales
Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NW of Newborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Madeleine Gray, of the School of Education/Ysgol Addysg, University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd, for her photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period ornamented with key-pattern. Noted in Rees (2003) as a font of a roaming workshop that produced also the font at Llangristiolus. Thurlby (2006) discusses its interlace ornamentation in the context of the fonts at Cerrigceinwen, Heneglwys, Llanbeulan and nearby Newborough, as well as the font at Llangristiolus. Thurlby (ibid.) also notes that the saltire motif on the Trefdraeth font "appears on three other Anglesey fonts: Llangaffo, Llechcynfarwy and Llanfair-yn-Neubyll". The cylindrical basin stands on a crudely rendered roughly cubic-shaped base. The wooden font cover is plain and round; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.207, -4.385
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 12′ 25.2″ N, 4° 23′ 6″ W
UTM: 30U 407500 5896193
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
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