Kenfig / Cynffig, St. Mary Magdalene, Maudlam / Mawdlam
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B01: design element - patterns - scalloped - imbrication
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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Malcolm Thurlby (2006)
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BBL01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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R01: design element - motifs - rope
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 53)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Malcolm Thurlby (2006)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04383KEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Newman (1955) groups together the fonts at Kenfig, Llantwit Major, St. Donats and St. Lythans
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Maudlam
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Notes: The church of Mawdlam / Maudlam is in the Benefice of Pyle and Kenfig, diocese of Llandaff.
Church Address: North Cornelly, Maudlam, Bridgend CF33 4PH, United Kingdom
Site Location: Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km NW of Porthcawl, between the M4 and the coast
Historical Region: formerly Glamorgan
Font Notes:
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Mentioned in Bond (1908) as a Norman font ornamented with "imbrications or shingle". Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period; its sides are totally covered in a diaper or scallop pattern, like scales on a fish; the upper rim side is decorated with a rope motif. It is raised on a rectangular plinth with "priest's stone". The flat wooden cover is probably modern. Described in Newman (1995) as "a fine C12 piece, tub-shaped, crisply carved with a scale pattern, a rope moulding at the top and a roll at the bottom. It may have been rescued from old Kenfig church." Described and illustrated in Thurlby (2006) as a baptismal font "decorated with imbrication (fish-scale pattern)". Thurlby (ibid.) further notes that the appearence of the imbrication motif on fonts "speaks clearly of the iconographic connection between death and resurrection and their simulation in Baptism"
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 449941 5708324
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.52381, -3.721554
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 31′ 25.72″ N, 3° 43′ 17.59″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 155
- Newman, John, Glamorgan (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1995, p, 44, 368
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 175 and fig. 250
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 18, 79, 84 and fig. 53