Conwy No. 1 / Conway

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design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - 8

Scene Description: eroded and badly damaged

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: damaged and badly eroded

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the stumps at the angles are probably the bases of the buttresses

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - motif inscribed - 8

Scene Description: inscribed motifs badly eroded; not identifiable

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: motifs badly eroded; not identifiable

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - north porch

Scene Description: used as main entrance to this church

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast end

Scene Description: showing the south portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Source caption: "St Mary and All Saints Church, Conwy was founded in the 12th Century as the abbey church of the Cistercian Abbey of Aberconwy. This was the burial place of many of the Princes of Gwynedd, including Gruffydd ap Cynan, Llewelyn ap Maelgwyn, Llywelyn the Great (Llywelyn Fawr), and his sons Dafydd and Gruffydd. After King Edward 1's conquest of Wales in 1283 Edward chose to build Conwy Castle and it's fortified town on the site and forced removal of the Abbey to Maenan in the Conwy valley. Llywelyn the Great's body, buried in 1240 AD was removed to Maenan and then, on the dissolution of the monasteries, to Llanrwst Church, where the coffin can still be seen. St Mary's became the Parish church for the new English town of Conway. Parts of the walls, notably on the north side, survive from the original 12th century Abbey church. While the lower stages of the tower, the south transept and the porches, were erected in the 14th century. In the 15th century the tower was completed, and the aisle roofs were raised in the 16th century. Parts of the interior to note are the 15th Century rood screen, once probably the finest in North Wales, and the medieval chancel stalls. There are many interesting slate gravestones in the churchyard and one tomb in particular containing seven brothers and sisters is marked "We Are Seven." It is said to have inspired the poet William Wordsworth to write his poem of the same name."

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary and All Saints Church, Conwy was founded in the 12th Century as the abbey church of the Cistercian Abbey of Aberconwy. This was the burial place of many of the Princes of Gwynedd, including Gruffydd ap Cynan, Llewelyn ap Maelgwyn, Llywelyn the Great (Llywelyn Fawr), and his sons Dafydd and Gruffydd. After King Edward 1's conquest of Wales in 1283 Edward chose to build Conwy Castle and it's fortified town on the site and forced removal of the Abbey to Maenan in the Conwy valley. Llywelyn the Great's body, buried in 1240 AD was removed to Maenan and then, on the dissolution of the monasteries, to Llanrwst Church, where the coffin can still be seen. St Mary's became the Parish church for the new English town of Conway. Parts of the walls, notably on the north side, survive from the original 12th century Abbey church. While the lower stages of the tower, the south transept and the porches, were erected in the 14th century. In the 15th century the tower was completed, and the aisle roofs were raised in the 16th century. Parts of the interior to note are the 15th Century rood screen, once probably the finest in North Wales, and the medieval chancel stalls. There are many interesting slate gravestones in the churchyard and one tomb in particular containing seven brothers and sisters is marked "We Are Seven." It is said to have inspired the poet William Wordsworth to write his poem of the same name."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 January 2012 by Jeff Buck [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2784282] [accessed 29 September 2016]

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view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image in Casglu'r Tlysau / Gathering the jewels [www.gtj.org.uk] [original source: watercolour and ink by Henry William Burgess, 1837, held at the Bodelwyddan Castle] [ref.: CFAT 0027]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02735CON

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints

Church Location: 18, Rose Hill St, Conwy LL32 8AF

Country Name: Wales

Location: Clwyd

Directions to Site: Conwy is on the shore of Conwy Bay, near Llandudno Junction; St. Mary's church is in the town centre.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bangor

Historical Region: Aberconwy & Colwyn, Carnarvon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, the S transept

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Tudor

Church Notes: original church part of the monastery established here in 1197; damaged in the 1282 conquest and subsequently changed to parish church;

Font Notes: Click to view

No entry found for Conwy in the Domesday survey. Illustrated by Henry William Burgess, watercolour and ink, 1837. On-site notes: octagonal pedestal font with badly eroded surfaces; the octagonal basin has each side adorned with a quatrefoil inscribed in a circle and containing a motif in its centre; these motifs appear to be floral but they are too eroded for identification; the sides themselves are square and very regular, although the font is in a very poor state of repair; there are motifs on the underbowl, again, too eroded for identification; the octagonal pedestal base is open-work and each side opens to the centre through an Ogee arch, most now broken; the whole is raised on a three-step octagonal plinth; the flat octagonal wooden lid is modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.280417, -3.829773

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 16′ 49.5″ N, 3° 49′ 47.18″ W

UTM: 30U 444676 5903786

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 13-17 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 65 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 90-100 cm

Basin Depth: 35 cm

Height of Basin Side: 38 cm

Basin Total Height: 60 cm

Height of Base: 70 cm

Height of Central Column: 45 cm

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 25 x 38 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 130 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat; modern

REFERENCES

Mehling, Franz N., Great Britain and Ireland: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985