Abergavenny

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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design element - motifs - semicircle - concentric

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view of basin

Scene Description: showing the large repair of insert stone at the rim, right side

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured here in early morning spring sunshine St Mary's Priory Church in Abergavenny was originally a Benedictine priory founded in the late 11th century by Hamelin de Ballon, Lord of Abergavenny. During the Dissolution of the monasteries the people of Abergavenny gained control of the church. Though dating from the late 11th century what we see today is from the early 14th century." -- what is the object in the forground? a cross base? a font base?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2009 by Philip Malling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1328184] [accessed 20 December 2017]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - tombstone

Scene Description: in the Herbert Chapel

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04364ABE

Church/Chapel: Priory Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Monk Street, Abergavenny, NP7 5ND, UK -- Tel.: 01873 853168

Country Name: Wales

Location: Monmouthshire

Directions to Site: Located off the A40, about 30 km W of Monmouth, towards the E end of the Brecons National Park

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Monmouthshire

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

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Monmouthshire workshop?

Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Abergavenny, Bettws Newydd, Goetre and Llansantffraed were presumably all made in the same workshop

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: original Benedictine priory ca. 1090

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a font decorated with a rope moulding among other motifs. Described in Newman (2000) as one of a local workshop [cf. Cognate fonts] whose specialty was "cup-shaped bowl decorated with concentric semicircles on a roll moulding." Newman later describes the ornamentation of this particular font as "a series of radiating arcs round its underside, above a thick rope moulding", and he further describes the stem and the "domical cover" as "Neo-Norman" and dates the latter to 1897. Described by Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003), who assigns it to a Monmouthshire workshop responsible for the fonts at Abergavenny, Goetre, Betws Newydd and Llansantffraed. Noted and ilustrated in Thurlby (2006) [NB: the roll moulding which is more commonly placed at the meeting of the underbowl and stem on most round font designs is, however, placed on these fonts at the bottom of the basin side, i.e., above the area usually defined as the underbowl]. The font is said to have been discarded in the 17th century; the old basin, but not the base, was retrieved from the churchyard and re-instated in the church in the 19th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8214, -3.0154

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 49′ 17.04″ N, 3° 0′ 55.44″ W

UTM: 30U 498939 5741174

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1897

Notes: [cf. Font notes]

REFERENCES

The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003

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

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928