Steynton / Stainton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05858STE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17742837
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter [earlier St. Kewel?]
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km N of Milford Haven on the A4076, about 8 km WNW of Pembroke [Coordinates: 51° 43′ 46.27″ N, 5° 1′ 2.47″ W 51.72952, -5.017351 -- UTM 30U 360681 5732881]
Font Notes:
The RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) reports a square font in this church. A square mounted baptismal font probably of the early 13th century is listed in "Pembrokeshire snippets" (home.clara.net/tirbach/HelpPagepearlsPEM.html) for the Parish Church of Steynton; the lower part of the tower and the font are dated of approximately the same time; the square basin of the font "stands upon a circular shaft 52 inches in circumference". [NB: this same source mentions "broken pieces of a font of the same period [i.e., the 13th century], which has been repaired"; it is not clear whether or not this is the same font referred to earlier in the same web page, though most likely it refers to another font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Rim Thickness: 15 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 50 x 50 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 65 x 65 cm
Notes on Measurements: home.clara.net/tirbach/HelpPagepearlsPEM.html p. 3

REFERENCES

  • 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. 1110