Ambleston / Treamlod

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 05076AMB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29501403
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: Graham J. Davies, in his WEB site "Parish of Ambleston" [under construction in October 2001] relates the origin of the church as being a vicarage, "formerly in the presentation of the prior of the Knights of St; John of Jerusalem, to whom it was granted by Wizo, and Walter son of Wlater [...]" He also informs (ibid.) that "a faculty was granted for the restoration of Ambleston Church" on June 30, 1906.
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 13 kms NNE of Haverfordwest [Coordinates: 51° 53′ 41.21″ N, 4° 54′ 23.18″ W 51.89478, -4.90644]
Additional Comments: re-cycled font: basin used as a pig trough; base hollowed out and used as a cheese press. Font sold at auction; later restored to the church -- a quern also may have been used as stoup MUST USE
Font Notes:
Bond (1908) describes how the baptismal font from the church of St. Mary at Ambleston ended up: "the bowl was found at one farm used as a pig trough; its base and pedestal were found in another farm; the latter had been hollowed out and was in regular use as a cheese press." The RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) notes: "At a restoration about the year 1833 the original font with its circular shaft and square base were sold by public auction, but in 1903 it was returned to the church. The bowl has an interior diameter of 18 inches. It is of Norman type, but is entirely unornamented. In the porch is a stone bowl which may have served at one time as a stoup, at another as a domestic mortar ; it has four equidistant projecting lugs or handles."


Lloyd et al. (2001) list a "Font. C12 grey stone square bowl" [unknown whether or not the elements of the font are the same that make the font in Lloyd's source]. Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (includes rim): 45 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925: 4)]

REFERENCES

  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 279
  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of the County of Pembroke, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1925, p. 5
  • Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 120
  • Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 188