St. Florence No. 1 / Saint Florence

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 05643TEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman
Workshop/Group/Artisan: North Devon workshop
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Florence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17743390
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Florentius [aka Florence, Florencius]
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the southwestern shores of Carmarthen Bay, opposite Caldey Island [NB: the village of St. Florence is on the B4318, a few km west of Tenby on the B4318]
Font Notes:
Listed in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font of the Norman period with a basin shaped like a scalloped capital [NB: the location in Bond is given as "St Florence, Tenby"; St. Florence is a village a few km inland of Tenby on the B4318]. A cushion-capital font in this church noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925). Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) on a list of mostly Welsh fonts consisting of a square basin decorated with scallop motif (includes one from Bristol St Philip's and another from Thornbury, Gloucs., both bordering with Wales). Listed by Lord (2003) as one of about twenty square fonts produced by a north-Devon workshop [NB: Lord cites Robert Boak's unpublished research as source for the workshop identification]. The decoration of these fonts consists chiefly of scallop and/or foliage motifs. Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Font. Norman, scalloped square bowl." Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire". [cf. Index entry for St. Flrence No. 2 for an early holy-water stoup in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

  • The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: p. 80 fn70
  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 151
  • 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, no. 1038
  • Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 440
  • Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 188
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 87