Monknash / Yr as Fawr

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BU01: design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 04404MON
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin? / St. Mary Magdalene?
Country Name: Wales
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km WNW of Llantwit Major, on the Bristol Channel, near the Nash
Font Location in Church: Located in the W end of the nave, S side, by the S door
Century and Period: 13th century / 15th - 16th century, Early English? / Late Medieval?
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."

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