Bettws Newydd / Betws Newydd

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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design element - motifs - semicircle - concentric

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Aeddan's church, Bettws Newydd. The origins of St Aeddan's church in Bettws Newydd date from the 12th century, however, the present building is later, dating from the 15th century. In the churchyard to the right is a restored preaching cross"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2012 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3221712] [accessed 23 January 2020]

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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Aeddan's church, Bettws Newydd contains one of the most complete rood screens which includes stairs, loft and tympanum."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2012 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3221784] [accessed 23 January 2020]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Lane, 2007

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 February 2007 by Jamice Lane [www.flickr.com/photos/trelewis/398619501/in/photostream/] [accessed 23 January 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04365BET
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Aeddan
Church Patron Saints: St. Aeddan
Church Location: Bettws Newydd, Usk NP15 1JW, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Monmouthshire
Directions to Site: Located E of the B4598 and the Usk river, 5-6 km N of Usk, 5-6 W of Raglan, 20-25 NNE of Newport
Historical Region: formerly Gwent / 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 [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: 12thC church; re-built 15thC
Described in Newman (2000) as an "unsually fine" Norman font, the work of a local workshop [cf. Cognate fonts] whose specialty was "cup-shaped bowl decorated with concentric semicircles on a roll moulding." He dates the octagonal stem and the base to the 15th century. 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 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]. Noted in Jenkins (2008) as Norman. The entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/222145/details/bettws-newydd-church] [accessed 23 January 2020] notes: "Bettws Newydd Church is a well preserved and restored medieval parish church, probably founded in the twelfth century with a dedication to St Aeddan. The present fabric is fifteenth century in style and iIts most remarkable feature is the late medieval screen which is probably unique in the British Isles. [...] The church was restored in 1872"; no font mentioned in it. The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300001962-bettws-newydd-church-llanarth] [accessed 23 January 2020] notes: "Font is like those at Abergavenny and Goetre. [...] Bowl font with rope-mould over band of half-round reeding on underside, hexagonal shaft and splayed base with 'malt-shovel' panels."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.7479, -2.9253
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 44′ 52.44″ N, 2° 55′ 31.08″ W
UTM: 30U 505157 5733002

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003
Jenkins, Simon, Wales: Churches, Houses, Castles, London: Allen Lane, 2008
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