Oystermouth / Ystumllwynarth

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04407OYS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Transitional
Workshop/Group/Artisan: North Devon workshop
Cognate Fonts: Newman (1995) gives the font at Welsh St. Donats as cognate, although the basin of the latter is cylindrical. Thurlby (2006) suggests Llangennith, Llanmadoc, Oystermouth and Reynoldston
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Park Ln, Mumbles, Swansea SA3 4DE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1792 361684
Site Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4593, near Mumbles Beach, on the W side of Swansea Bay
Historical Region: Glamorgan
Font Notes:
Described in Newman (1995) as "a good C13 piece. Square bowl with big scallops on the underside. Circular stem and moulded foot on a square base." Listed in Bond (1908). Listed by Peter Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003) as one of about twenty fonts produced by a north-Devon workshop [NB: Lord cites Robert Boak's unpublished research as source for the workshop identification]. 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

UTM: 30U 430867 5714119
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.5739, -3.9976
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 34′ 26.04″ N, 3° 59′ 51.36″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

  • The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: 80 fn70
  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 151
  • Newman, John, Glamorgan (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1995, p. 44, 484
  • Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 181