Monknash / Yr as Fawr

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04404MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century / 15th - 16th century, Early English? / Late Medieval?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary of Monknash
Font Location in Church: Located in the W end of the nave, S side, by the S door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin? / St. Mary Magdalene?
Church Address: St Mary Monknash, Cowbridge CF71 7QQ, United Kingdom
Site Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4265, about 5 km WNW of Llantwit Major, on the Bristol Channel, near the Nash
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Davids
Additional Comments: [the font is partly visible in Thurlby's photograph of the nave (fig. 254, 2006)]
Font Notes:
Orrin (1988) writes: "The 13th-century font has an octagonal bowl scalloped on the underside and a square string separates it from a square stem with chamfered base. It rests upon a large square plinth." Newman (1995), however, has: "simplest late medieval, octagonal bowl."

COORDINATES

UTM: -3.55314
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.4229, -3.55314
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 25′ 22.44″ N, 3° 33′ 11.3″ 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. 450-451
  • Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988, p. 290