Capel Llanilltern / Chapel Illterne / Llan Illtwrn / Llanilterne / Llanillteyrn

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8-petal

Scene Description: several [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004, in the RCAHMW site [www.coflein.gov.uk/images/m/CHCP_026.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2015]

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design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus

Scene Description: the acanthus leaves stem from the lower basin side

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Vendumaglus Stone is one of a group seven sub-Roman early Christian monuments of the 5th - 7th century found in Glamorgan. The reading is VENDVAMAL-HIC IACET, which is translated as 'Of Vendumaglus: he lies here'. We have no idea who Vendumaglus was but he was probably either a priest or person so well-known in his time that there was no need to give his father's name."

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Image Source: B&W photograph in the Pentyrch CC site [www.pentyrch.cc/hanesm/index.php/en/llanilltern.html] [accessed 14 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: B&W photograph in the Pentyrch CC site [www.pentyrch.cc/hanesm/index.php/en/llanilltern.html] [accessed 14 December 2015]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04381CAP
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ellteryn
Church Patron Saints: St. Ellteryn [aka Illtyd]
Church Location: St Ellteyrn, Capel Llanilltern, Cardiff CF5 6HF, Wales, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km WNW of Cardiff, on the A4419 [aka Llantisant Rd], just off (N) the M4 at the A4232
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Llandaff
Historical Region: Cwmwd of Uwch Caeth, Cantref of Brenhinol -- Hundred of Dinas Powys -- Glamorgan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: Newman (1995) gives the font at Bonvilston as cognate
Church Notes: Early Christian stone with Latin inscription may indicate original site here; present chapel was Chapel of ease to St Fagans; rebuilt on an earlier site in 1862, designs by G.E. Street
Described in Newman (1995) as "a fine early C13 piece, big leaves sprouting symmetrically on the circular bowl. Rosettes too." The round basin is raised on a broached round-to-square pedestal base. A wooden cover, round, flat and modern is on the font. Font here noted and illustrated in the RCAHMW [www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/302090/details/ST+ELLTEYRN'S+CHURCH,+CAPEL+LLANILLTERN/] [accessed 14 December 2015]. A colour digital photograph of the font taken in 2004, part of the Colin Harvey Church Photograph Collection [cat. no.: C441203 / acc, no.: NA/GL/2009/013e] is viewable in the RCAHMW site [www.coflein.gov.uk/en/catalogue/6220097/details/504/] [accessed 14 December 2015]. Noted in the Pentyrch CC site: "Capel Llanilltern Church is listed in the Norwich Taxation of 1254 and was a chapelry within the parish of St Fagan's. The dedication is to Elldeyrn a brother or son of Vortigern. The old church was replaced in 1862, but a number of important memorials from the old church were preserved including the 6th/7th century Vendumaglus Stone. The original 12th century Font also survives."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Newman, John, Glamorgan (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1995