Llanhowell / Llanhywel

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design element - motifs - leaf or spur - 4

Scene Description: at the angles of the lower base

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph taken in August 2000 by Tom & Anne Heck

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph taken in August 2000 by Tom & Anne Heck

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design element - motifs - scallop - 12

Scene Description: three on each side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in August 2000 by Tom & Anne Heck

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 May 2029 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6162706] [accessed 28 January 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Llanhowel Church. Church first sited here in the sixth century, present church dates to thirteenth century."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2005 by ceridwen [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/41381] [accessed 28 January 2020]

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view of church exterior - stone

Scene Description: Source caption: "Inscribed stone, Llanhywel. This stone, found in the area being used as a gate-post, can be seen within the church. The words appear to say RINACI NOMENA. possibly meaning: the remains of Rinacus, although there has been dispute about both the actual words and their significance. It probably dates from C5 or 6."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2007 by ceridwen [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/425506] [accessed 28 January 2020]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: with the 6thC(?) inscribed stone in the background

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in August 2000 by Tom & Anne Heck

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03478LLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Hywel / Eglwys Llanhywel

Church Patron Saints: St. Hywel the Great [aka Hoel, Hoel I Mawr, Hoël. Hoelus, Hœlus, Howel, Hywel]

Church Location: 15 Ffordd Panteg, Llanhowell, Solva, Haverfordwest SA62 6TL, UK

Country Name: Wales

Location: Pembrokeshire

Directions to Site: Located E of the A487, 3 km NNE of Solva, 7 km ENE of St Davids, about 20 km NW of Haverfordwest

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Davids

Historical Region: Hundred of Dewisland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman? / Transitional?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Anne & Thomas Heck for their information on this font.

Church Notes: possible monastic site in the 6thC; present church 12thC and later; much restored 1890s;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925): "The font basin is of the cushion type, externally 21 inches and internally 16 inches square. It is supported on a circular shaft with square base, the total height being 28 inches." Listed in Lloyd et al. (2004): "Font -- Square, C12, scalloped bowl on a circular shaft." Also In Jenkins ([s.d.]) Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire". The entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/102887/details/st-hywels-church-llanhowel] [accessed 28 January 2020] notes: "The site may be early medieval in origin. The benefice was held in multiple patronage (a pre-Conquest form of land tenure) by the Welsh tenants of the parish until it was purchased by the Bishop between 1280 and 1302. The church was a parish church during the post-Conquest period [...] The church was restored in the later 19th century"; no font mentioned in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300012423-church-of-st-hywel-llanrhian] [accessed 28 January 2020] notes: "Uncertain medieval date, possibly C14 to C15, heavily restored in later C19. [...] at W end C5 or C6 burial stone inscribed ‘RINACI NOMENA’ removed from Upper Carnhedryn Farm. C12 square scalloped font on circular shaft and square base." On-site notes by T&A Heck: square mounted font in the Transitional style, the cushion-type; the stem of the base is cylindrical and the lower base square, with some attempt at ornamentation (a leaf?) at each of the outer angles.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.9023, -5.1717

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 54′ 8.28″ N, 5° 10′ 18.12″ W

UTM: 30U 350596 5752401

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Rim Thickness: 6 cm**

Diameter (inside rim): 40 x 40 cm* / 40.5 x 40.5 cm**

Basin Depth: 18 cm**

Height of Basin Side: 26.5 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 70 cm* / 72 cm**

Trapezoidal Basin: 52.5 x 52.5 cm* / **

Notes on Measurements: * in inches in the RCAHMW (Pemnroke, 1925) / ** Anne & Thomas Heck

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Notes: [Tom & Anne Heck]

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of the County of Pembroke, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1925

Jenkins, Richard Morvin, A Pembrokeshire Pilgrimage: a History of the Church and Parish of Llanhowell, [Llanhowell?]: [The Parish?]; C.I.T. Printing Service, [s.d.]

Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004

Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006