St. George-super-Ely / Sain Siorys

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

Scene Description: one on each side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: B&W photograph in Orrin (1988)

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: B&W photograph in Orrin (1988)

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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: B&W photograph in Orrin (1988)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04413GEO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George

Church Patron Saints: St. George

Country Name: Wales

Location: Vale of Glamorgan

Directions to Site: Located about 8 km WNW of Cardiff

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the S door

Century and Period: 15th century (early?), Perpendicular

Cognate Fonts: Newman (1995) indicates that its ornamentation is like the one on the font at Pendoylan. Also St. Fagans

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Orrin (1988): "The font [...] is octagonal and appears to be of 15th-century date". In Newman (1995) also as being probably of the 15th century.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern

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