St. Lythans / Llwyneliddon
Image copyright © Orrin, 1988
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B01: design element - patterns - chevron or zigzag?
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 font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Orrin, 1988
Image Source: B&W photograph in Orrin (1988)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 04424LYT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bleiddian
Church Patron Saints: St. Bleiddian [aka Bleddian]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Directions to Site: Located about 7 kms W of Cardiff, in south Glamorgan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a Norman font decorated with a zigzag or chevron motif on the panels of the basin. Described in Newman (1995) as a 12th-century "mighty tub encircled with six rows of zigzag." Orrin (1988) notes: "The Norman font is barrel-shaped and decorated with six rows of large chevron moulding in a continuous pattern. There is no base or stem and the font rest upon some modern stonework. Its size provides ample evidence for the practice of total immersion of the infant". Thurlby (2006) writes: "The cylindrical form of the St Lythans' font may lack the elegant lines of the St Athan's goblet but it makes up for that with no less than six rows of chevron ornament." The base on which the monolithic basin is raised is made of stone blocks. Low-dome cover with ring-handle.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Gustafsson, Evald, "Majestatis", Svensk konstnärsklexikon, 1961
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