St. Nicholas nr. Cardiff

INFORMATION

FontID: 04426NIC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: Wales
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Directions to Site: Located mid-way between Cardiff and Cowbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century / 15th century, Early English? / Perpendicular?
Described in Orrin (1988): "The 13th-century font has a plain octagonal shallow bowl with typical strings of the period. The octagonal stem splays at the bottom to rest on a modern octagonal plinth." Newman (1995), however, dates to the Perpendicular period.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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