Michaelston-super-Ely No. 1 / Llanfihangel-ar-Elái / Llanvihangel-ar-Elái

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at either end of the stem [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 04403MIC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: Wales
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Directions to Site: Located about 8 km W of Cardiff [NB: not to be mistaken with Michaelston-le-Pit SW of Cardiff]
Historical Region: Glamorgan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Described in Orrin (1988): "The font, which stands in the centre of the west part of the nave, has a plain octagonal boel of 14th-century date. A plain moulding at the top of the circular stem is repeated again before the modern base which stands on a circular plinth." Noted in Newman (1995) as a "small octagonal medieval bowl on a modern circular stem."

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
Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988