Whitson

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04358WHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Workshop/Group/Artisan: North Devon workshop
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [derelict/disused]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Notes: disused church went on sale in 2018 [https://paulfosh.eigonlineauctions.com/lot/details/59441] [accessed 27 April 2024]
Church Address: Whitson, Newport NP18 2PP, Great Britain
Site Location: Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 10-11 km SE of Newport on the N bank of the mouth of the Severn
Historical Region: formerly Monmouthshire
Additional Comments: e-mail sent trying to locate Robert Boak and his work on the Devon/Somerset/Wales font workshops -- January 13, 2004]
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Norman period. Described in Newman (2000) as "an impressive Norman piece. Square bowl, the N face decorated with a lattice pattern, the undersides of all four faces boldly scalloped." Described by Peter Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003) as one of about twenty fonts produced by a north-Devon workshop [NB: Lord cites Robert Boak's unpublished research as source for the workshop identification]. Noted in Thurlby (2006): "contemporary [i.e., after 1175] font with a square bowl on a stem with three scallops on the underside and the north face carved with lattice work. The lattice may be compared with the same pattern on one of the grave slabs at Llanfihangel Abercywyn".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 506934 5710995
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.55, -2.9
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 33′ 0″ N, 2° 54′ 0″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

  • The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: p. 79-80 and fn70
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 208
  • Newman, John, Gwent/Monmouthshire, London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 2000, p. 21, 600
  • Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 167