Llancarfan No. 1 / Llancarvan

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BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop - 9

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in 2011 by Madeleine Gray

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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in 2011 by Madeleine Gray

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view of base

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in 2011 by Madeleine Gray

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: notice the damage to the rim where the metal staples of the cover are - the partial lead-lining inside the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2011 by Madeleine Gray

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: digital photograph taken 14 August 2007 by John Salmon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Cadoc_Llancarfan,_Glamorgan,_Wales.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2011]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2007 by John Salmon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Cadoc_Llancarfan,_Glamorgan,_Wales.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2011]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2011 by Madeleine Gray

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 21 August 2011]

INFORMATION

FontID: 04384LLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cadoc

Church Patron Saints: St. Cadoc [aka Cadocus, Cadog, Catawg, Catwg the Wise]

Country Name: Wales

Location: Vale of Glamorgan

Directions to Site: Located about 7 km WNW of Barry, in S Glamorgan

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Llandaff

Historical Region: Glamorgan

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

Century and Period: 14th century [re-cut?], Decorated [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Madeleine Gray, of the School of Education/Ysgol Addysg, University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd, for her photographs of this font

Church Notes: medieval mural paintings inside the church [www.stcadocs.org.uk/en/the-king-and-queen.html] [accessed 21 August 2011]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A nonagonal [nine-sided] basin in which the lower part of the side panels are rounded; round underbowl with leaf ornamentation; the pedestal base is also polygonal, but could be octagonal. The flat wooden cover is plain and modern. Described and illustrated in Orrin (1988) as a nonagonal font, decorated with scallops on the underbowl. Newman (1995) states that it is hard to date and suggests the 14th century. The basin of the font appears re-cut, or drastically re-tooled, including the sides and the underbowl [compared to the upper surface of the rim, quite damaged and worn, the sides and underbowl are almost pristine; was it re-cut in the 19th century? The pedestal base bears the scars of time as well. The plain, flat octagonal font cover is modern.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 474502 5696225

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: nonagonal (nine-sided) (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: nonagonal (nine-sided)

Drainage Notes: partial lead-ling

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988