Wick nr. Cowbridge / Y Wig

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Photo caption: "A small church having Norman features though in Early English style and dating from the early 12th century. The interior Norman and Early English features are of particular interest. It has an interesting history having originally been a chapel. It was given to Ewenny Priory in the late 12th century on the condition that three weekly services were held there. By the late 16th century it had been annexed to St. Brides Major. The church underwent major restoration in 1871 when much rebuilding was undertaken and a porch and vestry added."
Scene Description: Photo caption: "A small church having Norman features though in Early English style and dating from the early 12th century. The interior Norman and Early English features are of particular interest. It has an interesting history having originally been a chapel. It was given to Ewenny Priory in the late 12th century on the condition that three weekly services were held there. By the late 16th century it had been annexed to St. Brides Major. The church underwent major restoration in 1871 when much rebuilding was undertaken and a porch and vestry added."
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view of font and cover

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Orrin, 1988
Image Source: B&W photograph in Orrin (1988)
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01027WIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early?), Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James / Eglwys St James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, by the S entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Notes: church originally 12thC; this parish church is in the Rectorial Benefice of Llantwit Major
Church Address: Wick, Cowbridge, The Vale of Glamorgan CF71 7QE
Site Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4265, about 6 km WNW of Llantwit Major, 8 km WSW of Cowbridge, in S Glamorgan
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Llandaff
Historical Region: Cantref of Cron Nedd / Hundred of Ogmore
Font Notes:
Tyrrell-Green (1928) gives a list of fonts in which a rope moulding constitutes "the sole adornment": Bierton (Bucks.), Egloskerry (Cornwall), Launcells Cornwall), Tremaine (Cornwall), Wick (Glam), Tresmere (Cornwall), Notgrove (Gloucs.), Folkton (NYorks.), Backwell (Somerset), Congresbury (Somerset). Described and illustrated in Orrin (1988): "The Norman font of Sutton stone is tub-shaped and ornamented with cable moulding around the rim and roll-moulding around the base.. It rests on a modern stone plinth and is placed near the south doorway." Described in Newman (1995) as a Norman baptismal font of the 12th century: "Tub shaped. Rope moulding round the lip." Thurlby (2006) writes: "The slightly bulbous, tub-shaped font at Wick has a cable moulding at the top and a simple roll at the bottom of the plain bowl [...]. It looks like a plain version of the imbricated example at Kenfig [...] and one wonders if similar decoration was originally executed in paint at Wick."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U E 461735 N 5698709
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.26297, 3.33031

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round; appears modern

REFERENCES

  • Newman, John, Glamorgan (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1995, p. 647
  • Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988, 420; ill. on p. 88
  • Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 178 and fig. 255
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 18, 79