Llantrisant nr. Cardiff / Llantrisaint / Llantrissant

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B01: design element - motifs - circle - stars inside - 8

Scene Description: one on each face of the octagonal basin [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 04395LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Illtyd, St. Gwynno and St. Dyfodwg
Church Patron Saints: St. Illtyd [aka Illtud], St. Wonno [Gwynno] and St. Dyfodwg
Country Name: Wales
Location: Rhondda Cynon Taf
Directions to Site: Located about 16 km WNW of Cardiff [not to be mistaken with its homonyms in Mons. and Angles.]
Historical Region: Glamorgan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century / 15th century, Norman? / Perpendicular?
Cognate Fonts: Newman (1995) gives Llanharry, Llantrisant and Pyle, all in Glamorgan, as examples of simply ornamented Perpendicular fonts in this county
Described in Newman (1995) as "an exceptional piece, octagonal, each face bearing a large disc enclosing chip-carved stars" and dates it to the 15th century, like the fonts at Llanharry and Pyle. Thurlby (2006) writes: "the font was not replaced with the rebuilding [i.e., by J. Pritchard between 1872 and 1874]. It is octagonal and each face is decorated with a roundel with chip-carved ornament. Newman [cf. supra] related the font to those at Llanharry and Pyle and dated them to the fifteenth century [...] While the affiliations are convincing, the chip carving is more at home in the twelfth, rather than the fifteenth century. This was the view expressed by J. Romilly Allen, although the octagonal form of the font led him to attribute it to the thirteenth century [...] However, the Norman font at Mears Ashby (Northants.) provides a good analogue for the octagonal form and the decorated roundels at Llantrisant".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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