Llantrithyd No. 2 / Llantriddyd
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Results: 4 records
B01: design element - motifs - cartouche
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
R01: design element - motifs - moulding
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04399LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century, Late Perpendicular / Tudor
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Illyd
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Illtyd [aka Illtud]
Church Address: Llantrithyd, Cowbridge CF71 7UB, United Kingdom
Site Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of the A48, 5 km E of Cowbridge, in S Glamorgan
Historical Region: Glamorgan
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Orrin (1988): "The best example of a late Perpendicular font [in the Vale of Glamorgan] [...] The font has an octagonal goblet-shaped bowl with moulded rim. The bowl is decorated on each panel with a piece of scroll-edged strapwork and typical Tudor flower decoration. The pedestal shaft rests on an octagonal base." Described in Newman (1995) as "an interesting piece. Of stone, octagonal with a cartouche on each face, on an octagonal stem", and gives the mid-17th century as the most likely date for this font. [cf. Index entry for Llantrithyd No. 1 for a Norman font in the churchyard]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 473871 5699602
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.447, -3.376
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 26′ 49.2″ N, 3° 22′ 33.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Newman, John, Glamorgan (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1995, p. 404
- Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988, p. 236 and ill. on p. 89