Partrishow No. 1 / Patricio / Patrisio / Patrishow

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: at opposite ends of the upper rim surface

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2016 by David F. Goda

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: as seen in this photograph, the rim moulding is not a complete circle, but end here on a lovely foliage curl; the opposite end, believed to have been originally a similar motif was probably damaged at some point and looks rough now [or was unfinished?]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2016 by David F. Goda

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inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area and Font notes]

Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 23)

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inscription

Image Source: Romilly Allen (1888: p. opp. p. 167)

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inscription

Image Source: Nash-Williams (1950: fig. 53)

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inscription

Image Source: Nash-Williams (1950: pl. LXIII)

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inscription - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2016 by David F. Goda

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: rim and inscription

Image Source: Westwood (1876-1879: pl. XL fig. 2)

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Graham Horn 24 February 2008 [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/705541] [accessed 27 April 2012]

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view of font

Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 23)

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view of font

Image Source: Westwood (1876-1879: pl. XL fig. 1)

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: as photographed in July 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2011 by David Edward Pike [http://daibach-welldigger.blogspot.ca/2011_07_01_archive.html] [accessed 26 April 2012]

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view of font and cover - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2016 by David F. Goda

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view of font and cover in context

view of font in context

Image Source: colour photograph in Kroesne & Steensma, 2004

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05598PAT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Issui

Church Patron Saints: St. Issui [aka Ishow]

Church Location: Vale of Grwyney, Powys, Powys NP7 7LP

Country Name: Wales

Location: Powys

Directions to Site: Located 10 km N of Abergavenny, 10 km NE of Crickhowell, in the Brecon Beacons National Park

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. David's

Historical Region: formerly Brecknockshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the left (W) of the entrance

Date: ca. 1060?

Century and Period: 11th century [basin only], Pre-Conquest

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master (?) Menhir?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Pike, and to David F. Goda for thier photographs of this font

Church Notes: Tyrrell-Green (1928: 151): "The church at Patricio was dedicated by Bishop Herwald of Llandaff about the year 1060, and it is quite likely that the font was placed within it at the time it was built, so that it would belong to the period before the Norman Conquest, and the Genillin named is identified by Westwood with Genillin Foel, who was Prince of Powys in the middle of the eleventh century".

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Lewis' Dictionary edition of 1849. Described and illustrated with measurements and record of the inscription in Westwood, in Archaeologia Cambrensis (1856) and (1876-1879), and Bloxham (Archaeologia Cambrensis (1874). Described and illustrated in Romilly Allen (1888), who reckons that "if we accept the identification of Genillin [cf. infra] with ther Prince of Powis of the same name, this font must be ascribed to the middle of the eleventh century". Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as one of the oldest baptismal fonts in Wales; it "may be attributed either to the end of the eleventh or to the beginning of the twelfth century [...o]n account of the identification of a name mentioned in the inscription"; other sources have proposed earlier dates for this object but, as has been pointed out, it does not follow that antiquity be based simply the crude rendering of it. The upper surface of the rim has an inscription with the name of the master ["Menhir"] and a reference to the period in which it was done ["in tempore Genillin"]; there are two foliage motifs at opposite ends of the rim, next to the inscription; there are also two pairs of holes, also at opposite ends, evidence of lid hardware. The font is raised on a wider cylindrical plinth. Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928): "bowl and shaft [...] hewn out of single stone"; he adds that the inscription assigns this font to a pre-Conquest date and that the text of it most likely does not make a reference to "Menhir" master at all [cf. Inscription notes below]. Described and illustrated in Nash-Williams (1950), who dates the font to the late 11th or 12th century, describes the lettering as "Hiberno-Saxon minuscules" and translates the inscription as "Menhir made me in the time of Genillin". Thurlby (2006) sees no reason to doubt the 1060 dating that coincides with the dedication of the church itself. Noted in Jenkins (2008). The basin may have been intended originally to be placed against a wall, as one of the sides is rough, and the details unfinished. [cf. Index entry for Partrishow No. 2 for a 14th-century stoup in the gatehouse]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.89564, -3.049783

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 53′ 44.3″ N, 3° 2′ 59.22″ W

UTM: 30U 496574 5749432

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 15 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm***

Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm* / 85 cm** / 85 cm***

Notes on Measurements: * Nash-Williams (1950: 79) as: 32" diam. x 6" w. (across rim) / ** Romilly Allen (1888: 167) as 2 ft. 10 in. in diameter / *** Westwood (1876-1879: 71) as 34" of external diameter and 20" internal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: Tyrrell-Green (1928: 150-151) gives two versions of the translation: 1.- the most usual rendition: MENHIR MADE ME IN THE TIME OF GENILLIN 2.- what he believes the true meaning is: I WAS MADE OUT OF A SINGLE STONE IN THE TIME OF GENILLIN

Inscription Location: on the upper rim surface

Inscription Text: "MENHIR ME FECIT I[N] TE[M]PORE GENILLIN"

Inscription Source: Westwood (1876-1879: 71); Romilly Allen (1888: 167); Tyrrell-Green (1928: 151); Bond (1985 c1908: 107); Nash-Williams (1950: fig. 53 and pl. LXIII)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: two pairs of holes at opposite ends of the upper rim; evidence of old cover hardware; the current [2010] font cover is moder, of a rustic desgin. a round base with two planks and a handle across

REFERENCES

The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003

Allen, J. Romilly, "On the Antiquity of Fonts in Great Britain", XLIV, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1888, pp. 164-173; r["References"]

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

Jenkins, Simon, Wales: Churches, Houses, Castles, London: Allen Lane, 2008

Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Mehling, Franz N., Great Britain and Ireland: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985

Nash-Williams, Victor Erle, The Early Christian Monuments of Wales, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1950

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

Westwod, John Obadiah, Lapidarium Walliæ: the Early Inscribed and Sculptured Stones of Wales, delineated and described, Oxford: Printed at the University Press for the Cambrian Archælogical Association, 1976-1879