St. Donats nr. Brigend / Sain Dunwyd

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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 November 2010 by Madeleine Gray

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 November 2010 by Madeleine Gray

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design element - patterns - scalloped - imbrication

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 November 2010 by Madeleine Gray

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: has the drain hole been cemented over?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 November 2010 by Madeleine Gray

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2011 by Jeremy Bolwell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2408559] [accessed 20 September 2013]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: [NB: the barrel shape is a photographic distorsion; the basin is cylindrical]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 November 2010 by Madeleine Gray

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital phorograph taken 21 July 2010 by Mickk Lobb [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1926478] [accessed 20 September 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04422DON

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Donat

Church Patron Saints: St. Donat [aka Dunwyd]

Country Name: Wales

Location: Vale of Glamorgan

Directions to Site: Located about 5 kms W of Llantwit Major, in South Glamorgan

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Cognate Fonts: similarly decorated fonts at Kenfig and Llantwit Major [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Madeleine Gray, of the School of Education/Ysgol Addysg, University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd, for her photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Evans [ca. 1900?]: "The font is under the tower, and round and masiive. It is decorated of two rows ofd small and plain shields, closely joined together." [NB: the 'shields' noted in Evans are actually the scallops [cf. Newman infra]]. Listed in Bond (1908) as a Norman baptismal font with imbrication motif ornamentation. Baptismal font described in Newman (1995) as a "circular bowl with a roll top and bottom and scale-patterned sides, as if encircled by two rows of shields. Circular stem." Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a Norman font decorated with "two courses of it [scales or scallop] round the upper part of the font". In Orrin (1988): "Norman font, the bowl of which is circular, decorated at the top with two rows of fish-scale ornament set on a square base and plinth." Noted in Thurlby (2006): "The tub-shaped font sits on a squat stem, and is decorated with imbrication (fish-scale pattern) on the bowl, a simpler version of the fonts at Llantwit Major and Kenfig". Thurlby (ibid.) further notes that the appearence of the imbrication motif on fonts "speaks clearly of the iconographic connection between death and resurrection and their simulation in Baptism". [NB: an unconfirmed source refers to "a holy-water stoop on the left hand side of the north door, large octagonal and projecting, with the base richly ornamented" also in this church. Orrin (1988)mentions a trefoiled niche, near the north door, "under an ogee arch which once housed a holy-water stoup" -- not listed in this Index]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 463094 5695075

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: barrel-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: it is possible there was a central drain hole and it has been cemented over

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: conical cover with ball finial; appears modern

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Evans, T.C., The History of the Stradlings of St Donats, together with that of the Parish, Manor and Castle, [ca. 1900?]

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

Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928