Chepstow No. 1 / Cas-Gwent

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Results: 7 records
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
view of church exterior - west end
view of church exterior - west portal
view of font and cover
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 04359CHE
Church/Chapel: Parish and Priory Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Wales
Location: Monmouthshire
Directions to Site: Located 22 km ENE of Newport
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: the font at Usk, also in Gwent
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/], for his photographs of church and font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Newman (2000) as "Norman, plain but well-proportioned. Cylindrical bowl with rim moulding, cylidrical stem and moulded base." Illustrated in context in Thurlby (2006). The moulding at the uppr rim is very worn, but it is clearly a rope moulding. Besides the motifs mentioned in the sources above, the underbowl is decorated with a graded round moulding. Flat. round and plain wooden cover; modern.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
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