Llanmadoc / Llan Mdog / Llanmadog
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 August 2019)
Results: 7 records
view of font and cover - northwest side
Scene Description: notice the large damage to the lower basin, west side -- was it 'trimmed' to make it fit into a tight spot?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 August 2019)
design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 August 2019)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 August 2019)
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 August 2019)
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Law, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 November 2011 by Richard Law [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2684626] [accessed 5 August 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - stone
Scene Description: one of two early stones kept inside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 August 2019)
view of church interior - stone
Scene Description: one of two early stones kept inside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 August 2019)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04397LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Llangenydd, Oystermouth, Reynoldston and other scalloped-capital shaped fonts [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Madoc
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, S side, just W of the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Máedóc of Ferns [aka Madog] [also / or: St. Aidan?]
Church Notes: original church supposedly founded by St Madoc himself; re-built 13thC; restored 19thC
Church Address: Llanmadoc, Swansea SA3 1DE, UK
Site Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 1 km WNW of Cheriton, in the NW extremity of the Gower peninsula, 15-20 km W of Swansea
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Swansea and Brecon
Historical Region: Glamorgan
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (was there a church here in the 7thC?)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry foun for Llanmadoc in the Domesday survey. Tyrrell-Green (1928) includes this in 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, presumably medieval." Bond (1908) lists among a number of Norman fonts with scalloped-capital shaped basins. 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".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 413031 5719343
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.61839, -4.2562
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 37′ 6.2″ N, 4° 15′ 22.32″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: square, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 151
- Newman, John, Glamorgan (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1995, p. 390
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 181
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 86