Llangennith / Llangynydd / Llangenydd

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design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: five scallops on each side

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2019 by Rosser1954 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Ceynedd's_Church,_Llangennith,_The_Gower,_South_Wales.jpg] [accessed 25 January 2020]

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view of church interior - chancel - stone

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Ceynedd's stone, Llangennith, The Gower, Swansea, South Wales. Celtic interlace carving." -- the sandstone slab was part of the flooring until the late-19thC restoration, when floors were raised and the stne mounted on the south side of the chancel wall

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font by the tomb of a medieval kinght known locally as "the Dolly Mare" [perhaps a member of the De la Mere family]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04391LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cennydd
Church Patron Saints: St. Cennydd [aka Cynydd, Kyned, Kenneth?]
Church Location: Llangennith, Gower SA3 1HY, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Swansea
Directions to Site: Located inland of Rhossili Bay, 5-6 km W of Burry Green, 25 km W of Swansea, at the westernmost area of West Glamorgan
Historical Region: Hundred of Swansea -- formerly Glamorganshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Llanmadoc, Oystermouth, Reynoldston, and other scalloped-capital shaped fonts [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com] for the photograph of this font
Church Notes: possible early priory church here destroyed by Viking raid 986; present church consecrated ca. 1102; remodelled 1880s; 9thC slabd discovered in a chancel niche
Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) on a list of mostly Welsh fonts consisting of a square basin decorated with scallop motif (includes one from Bristol St Philip's and another from Thornbury, Gloucs., both bordering with Wales). Described in Newman (1995) as a "square bowl with a scalloped underside, on a round shaft with moulded base." Newman describes the material as Bath stone, which makes him wonder "Does this mean it is of the C19 in spite of its appearence of authenticity?". Bond (1908) lists this font as Norman font with a scalloped-capital shaped basin and without a question as to its dating. Thurlby (2006) suggests Llangennith, Llanmadoc, Oystermouth and Reynoldston, as Norman fonts "with a square bowl with scalloped undersides carried on a cylindrical shaft like a scalloped capital". The entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/301267/details/st-cennydds-church-llangenydd] [accessed 25 January 2020] notes on the church: "Mainly C13, C14, thought to originate from C12"; it does not mention the font in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.599612, -4.270167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 35′ 58.6″ N, 4° 16′ 12.6″ W
UTM: 30U 412028 5717272

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Bath stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: 20th century
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: modern cover by William Melling

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Newman, John, Glamorgan (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1995
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928