Gyffin / Gyffin in Conwy
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph taken 30 September 1948, in the RCAHMW [NMR Site Files -- Catalogue No.: C603807 -- File Reference: CA0809] [www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/43691/images/] [accessed 29 September 2016]
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design element - motifs - foliage
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph taken 30 September 1948, in the RCAHMW [NMR Site Files -- Catalogue No.: C603807 -- File Reference: CA0809] [www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/43691/images/] [accessed 29 September 2016]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald England, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2015 by Gerald England [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4512446] [accessed 29 September 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald England, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2015 by Gerald England [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4512411] [accessed 29 September 2016]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: at the southwest corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RCAHMW, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 30 September 1948, in the RCAHMW [NMR Site Files -- Catalogue No.: C603807 -- File Reference: CA0809] [www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/43691/images/] [accessed 29 September 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the font is visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160929040_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font is visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RCAHMW, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the RCAHMW [NMR Site Files -- Catalogue No.: C568533 -- File Reference: AA51/1888] [www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/43691/images/] [accessed 29 September 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02738GYF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century? [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Eglwys St Bened / Parish Church of St. Benedict
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the SW end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Benedict [aka Benet]
Church Address: Gyffin, Glanafon PO (W-bound), Conwy LL32, UK LL32 8HN
Site Location: Clwyd, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Gyffin is now a S suburb of Conwy [cf. Conwy No. 1, 2, 3)]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bangor
Historical Region: Aberconwy & Colwyn, Carnarvon
Additional Comments: altered font (the basin the only original part of this font)
Font Notes:
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Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-1872) reports an ancient font in this church. Mehling (1985) refers to a 13th-century font in the village church of Gyffin. The font consists of a round tapering basin decorated with inverted foliage motifs all around beneath the upper rim, plain below and around the underbowl; it is raised on a cluster of uneven colonnettes that is a later addition; the lower base and plinth are definitely a modern replacement. The basin is lead lined, the lining modern, and there is no cover present.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 444184 5903180
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.274912, -3.837036
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 16′ 29.68″ N, 3° 50′ 13.33″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
REFERENCES
- Mehling, Franz N., Great Britain and Ireland: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985, p. 154