Llanwrthwl No. 1
Image copyright © John Ibbotson, 2006
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Results: 5 records
BH01:
human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: very crude, at 90-degree angles on the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 7)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 7)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lord, 2003
Image Source: Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003, vol. 3: pl. 105)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ibbotson, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by John Ibbotson in www.megalithic.co.uk
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 05618LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Gwrthwl
Church Patron Saints: St. Gwrthwl
Country Name: Wales
Location: Powys
Directions to Site: Located 5-6 km S of Rhayader on the A470 (dir. Builth Wells); about 60 km EES of Aberystwyth
Historical Region: formerly Breconshire/Radnorshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Similar in general shape: Brayton, Llanwenog and Upton; also with heads: Rhayader, Silian, St Harmon, Pencarreg, all in Wales [cf. FontNotes]; also fonts of ther Mosan group
Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a hemispherical basin ornamented with four crude heads located on the upper basin side at 90-degree angles; the base is a plain cylindrical shaft; the lower base or plinth is also plain and circular, but much wider. Tyrrell-Green (ibid.) dates to the late Norman period. Described and illustrated by Peter Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003), who dates it to the 12th century and gives also the fonts at St. Harmon and Rhayader as varying in size but "identical in conception". A recent photograph of this font by John Ibbotson can be found in www.megalithic.co.uk [accessed 12 December 2006]. Thurlby (2006), who suggests a 13th-century dating for this and the Pencarreg fonts through similarities with other such sculptural details of the 13th century in nearby Bristol, and Salisbury, for instance. [cf. Index entry for Llanwrtwl No. 2 for a holy-water stoup of the same period also adorned with a human head motif]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain round, with handle atop; modern
REFERENCES
The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003
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
