Llanmadoc / Llan Mdog / Llanmadog

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design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 November 2011 by Richard Law [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2684626] [accessed 5 August 2019]

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view of church interior - stone

Scene Description: one of two early stones kept inside the church

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

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 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?

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

FontID: 04397LLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Madoc

Church Patron Saints: St. Máedóc of Ferns [aka Madog] [also / or: St. Aidan?]

Church Location: Llanmadoc, Swansea SA3 1DE, UK

Country Name: Wales

Location: Vale of Glamorgan

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, S side, just W of the S entranceway

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?

Cognate Fonts: Llangenydd, Oystermouth, Reynoldston and other scalloped-capital shaped fonts [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: original church supposedly founded by St Madoc himself; re-built 13thC; restored 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.61839, -4.2562

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 37′ 6.2″ N, 4° 15′ 22.32″ W

UTM: 30U 413031 5719343

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

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