Oystermouth / Ystumllwynarth
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BBL01: design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: the lower edge of the basin is carved in a scalloped pattern
INFORMATION
FontID: 04407OYS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: Wales
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Directions to Site: Located on the west side of Swansea Bay
Historical Region: Glamorgan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 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
Font Notes:
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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 (1998-2003) as one of about twenty fonts produced by a north-Devon workshop [NB: Lord cites Robert Boak's unpublished research as source for the workshop identification].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".
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
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Newman, John, Glamorgan (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1995
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006