Tregare / Tre'r-Gaer
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Christ - monogram - IHS - in a heart
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2013 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3449895] [accessed 20 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2013 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3440998] [accessed 20 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 04368TRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Wales
Location: Monmouthshire
Directions to Site: Located 3 km N of Raglan, 10 km WSW of Monmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Llandaff
Historical Region: Hundred of Raglan -- formerly Gwent / Monmouthshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [base only] [basin is 19thC] [composite font], Late Medieval
Church Notes: church restored in 1888 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports that the ancient church "contains a font curiously sculptured". Described in Newman (2000) as "a most remarkable C15 conceit, the shaft original, the bowl a C19 copy. Covered in hearts outlined by rolls, each heart enclosing IHS." The basin probably a replacement during the 1888 restoration.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.787405, -2.846615
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 47′ 14.66″ N, 2° 50′ 47.81″ W
UTM: 30U 510580 5737404
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: 19thC
Inscription Location: on the Victorian basin sides, inside each heart
Inscription Text: "IHS"
Inscription Source: Newman (2000)
REFERENCES
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
Newman, John, Gwent/Monmouthshire, London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 2000