Reynoldston

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BBL01: design element - patterns - scalloped

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 05486REY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Country Name: Wales
Location: Swansea
Directions to Site: Located on the western side of the Peninsula, just NW of Nicholaston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 14th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Nicholaston, also in Gower
Font Notes:
Listed in Bond (1908) as one of a few baptismal fonts of the 14th century composed of stalagmite [cf. Index entry for Nicholaston, also in Gower, for another font of the same period and composition]. The 'Explore Gower' site [www.explore-gower.co.uk] [accessed 13 December 2006] informs that this font is "constructed from a large block of stalagmite, believed to have been excavated from one of the Gower's very own caves." Thurlby (2006) suggests Llangennith, Llanmadoc, Oystermouth and Reynoldston, as Norman fonts "with a square bowl with scalloped undersides carried on a cylindrical shaft like a scalloped capital".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (stalagmite )
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006