Penmon No. 2 / Beaumaris
Image copyright © Lis Audigier, 2006
Standing permission
Results: 4 records
design element - motifs - leaf - lanceolated
Scene Description: Two on each visible side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lis Audigier, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken in April 2006 by Lis Audigier
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: at top and bottom of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lis Audigier, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken in April 2006 by Lis Audigier
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lis Audigier, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken in April 2006 by Lis Audigier
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in H.L. Jones (1844)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 03475PEN
Church/Chapel: Priory church of St. Seiriol
Church Patron Saints: St. Seiriol
Church Location: B5109, Beaumaris LL58 8SP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7789 625225
Country Name: Wales
Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd
Directions to Site: Located off the B5109, in the eastern-most tip of Anglesey, NE of Llangoed
Font Location in Church: By the wall, off the entrance
Date: ca. 1150
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: Our gratitude to Anne & Tom Heck for the information about, and images of, this stoup -- We are also grateful to Lis Audigier for her photograph of the stoup.
Church Notes: There is also a 12th century stoup in this church. The legend says that the 6th century founder and now patron saint of this church, the abbot St. Seiriol, used the well here for the first baptisms (Farmer, 1987, p. 381)
Illustrated in H.L. Jones (1844), who notes: "At Penmôn until within a few yaers a water-stoup of the same date as the font was used". Small rectangular stoup stands on a tall pillar. The basin has two laceolate leaf motifs on each of the visible sides, one side being against the wall. This may have originally been a capital which was later inverted and hollowed out to be used as a holy-water stoup. Considering the recycled nature of the font itself [cf. Penmon No. 1 entry in the Index], it would not be out of place. [Our gratitude to Anne & Tom Heck for the information about, and images of, this stoup -- We are also grateful to Lis Audigier for her photograph of the stoup].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.3058,
-4.057
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 18′ 20.88″ N,
4° 3′ 25.2″ W
UTM: 30U 429568 5906810
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, unknown
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Basin Depth: 14 cm
Basin Total Height: 24 cm
Height of Base: 29 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 53 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 24 x 25 cm (one side is 23 cm)
Notes on Measurements: Measurements taken by Tom & Anne Heck for BSI
REFERENCES
Jones, H. Longueville [Revd.], "Remarks on some of the churches of Anglesey", 1 (June 1844), The Archaeological Journal, 1844, pp. [118]-130; r["References"]
