St. Fagans / Sain Ffagan
Image copyright © Orrin, 1988
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Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the basin [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Orrin, 1988
Image Source: B&W photograph in Orrin (1988)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Ogee arches - 16
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Orrin, 1988
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]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Orrin, 1988
Image Source: B&W photograph in Orrin (1988)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Orrin, 1988
Image Source: B&W photograph in Orrin (1988)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of church interior - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Orrin, 1988
Image Source: plan in Orrin (1988)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04423FAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: St. George-super-Ely
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary in St Fagans
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave, near the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: 12thC church; original church, dedicated to St. Fagan, noted in Leland 's 'Itinerary...', was located near the castle.
Church Address: Crofft-y-Genau Rd, St Fagans, Cardiff CF5 6EL, United Kingdom
Site Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A4232. N of the A48, 6.5 km NW of Cardiff, in S Glamorgan
Historical Region: Glamorgan
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 481455 5704028
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.487094, -3.267099
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 29′ 13.54″ N, 3° 16′ 1.55″ W
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, p. 559
- Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988, p. 361; ill. on p. 89; plan on p. 358