Penmark / Pen-Marc

Results: 2 records

BU01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 04414PEN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Wales
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km W of Barry, in south Glamorgan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Transitional
Described in Orrin (1988): "At the west end of the nave stands the 13th-century freestone font with circular bowl, cup-shaped with a damaged roll-moulding in the form of a single string. It has similar mouldings on the underside and the plinth is an elongated hexagon." [NB: Orrin (ibid.) notes a holy-water stoup "on the right-hand of the south doorway on entering the church [...] set into a recess in the south wall of the nave", but does not mention a date -- not listed separately in this Index]. Noted in Newman (1995) simply as "a C13 tub on a round shaft."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

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