Conwy No. 2 / Conway

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02736CON
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: Originally found in the attic, now at the side of the entrance
Century and Period: , Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Somewhat related in shape to the font at Little Torrington?
Church Notes: See also Conwy No. 1 and No. 3.
Bond (1908: 71, 72) describes this as a "fontlet" which may in reality be a mortar; he refers to these objects as too heavy to be "hand fonts" (i.e., portable fonts) and argues that many show wear from the pestles and have been simply mistaken for stoups in the past. This "fontlet" is made of one block of stone, the basin appears as framed within a square structure. Drake (2002) groups this font in a catch-all grouping of "Small Clusters and Unique Fonts", together with the font at Little Torrington and a few other 'odds and ends'. On-site notes: one of two small hollowed containers being used now [July 2000] as holy-water stoups; they both look like mortars or medieval grain measures.

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, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining
Notes on Measurements: [measurements not taken]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002