St. Fagans / Sain Ffagan

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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 - architectural - arcade - blind - Ogee arches - 16

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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

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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: one at each end of the stem -- [cf. Font notes]

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

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: plan in Orrin (1988)

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04423FAG

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 near Llandaff, 6.5 km NW of Cardiff, in south Glamorgan

Historical Region: Glamorgan

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave, near the S doorway

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Cognate Fonts: St. George-super-Ely

Church Notes: The original church, dedicated to St. Fagan, noted in Leland 's 'Itinerary...', was located near the castle.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Orrin (1988): "The font has an octagonal bowl with a Perpendicular quatrefoil design on each face, while that on the faces of the octagonal base is a linked-trefoil window." A plan of the church interior in Orrin (ibid.) shows the location of the font. Described in Newman (1995) as having "the decoration fully elaborated, with an encircled quatrefoil on every face and a panelled stem." NB: Slaters Commercial Directory of 1880 mentions "an ancient carved font, said to have belonged to the church of St. Fagan", the original church built after the saint's death and dedicated to him [cf. Church Notes below] -- it is not clear whether or not two fonts exist here [source: transcription by Phil Mustoe in www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Llandaff/slaters.1800.html]. Orrin (1988) mentions "a mutilated holy-water stoup" inside the south door of the nave [stoup not listed in this Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. Image Area]

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