Whitson
Results: 2 records
B01: design element - patterns - lattice pattern
Scene Description: on the N side
BU01: design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: all over the underbowl
INFORMATION
FontID: 04358WHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Country Name: Wales
Location: Newport
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km SE of Newport on the N bank of the mouth of the Severn
Historical Region: formerly Monmouthshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Workshop/Group/Artisan: North Devon workshop
Font Notes:
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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 (1998-2003) as one of about twenty fonts produced by a north-Devon workshop [NB: Lord cites Robert Boak's unpublished research as source for the workshop identification].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".
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
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Newman, John, Gwent/Monmouthshire, London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 2000
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006