Wick nr. Cowbridge / Y Wig

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by veritas vita [www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMJY8F_Norman_Font_St_James_Church_Wick_Vale_of_Glamorgan_Wales] [accessed 16 June 2014]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by veritas vita [www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMJY8F_Norman_Font_St_James_Church_Wick_Vale_of_Glamorgan_Wales] [accessed 16 June 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2010 by Mick Lobb [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1929729] [accessed 16 June 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by veritas vita [www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMJY8F_Norman_Font_St_James_Church_Wick_Vale_of_Glamorgan_Wales] [accessed 16 June 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: B&W photograph in Orrin (1988)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01027WIC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James / Eglwys St James

Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]

Church Location: Wick, Cowbridge, The Vale of Glamorgan CF71 7QE

Country Name: Wales

Location: Vale of Glamorgan

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 Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, by the S entrance

Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Norman

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: church originally 12thC; this parish church is in the Rectorial Benefice of Llantwit Major

Font Notes: Click to view 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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.26297, 3.33031

UTM: 30U E 461735 N 5698709

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

Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988

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