St. Bride's Major / Saint-y-Brid

Results: 2 records

BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 04421BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bridget
Church Patron Saints: St. Brigid of Ireland [aka Brigit, Bridget, Bride, Brydoch, Brydock, Ffraed, Ffraid, Fraed]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Directions to Site: Located 6.5 km S of Bridgend, in S Glamorgan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
Described in Orrin (1988): "The font has a plain octagonal bowlwith a moulded rim and again just before the underside the bowl is angled out to meet yet another plain moulding and flat collar at the top of the octagonal stem. Stool stops break the octagon into a square base." Dated in Newman (1995) to the Perpendicular period.

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

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