Solva / Solfach

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INFORMATION
FontID: 05915SOL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Aidan [originally from the medieval Church of St. Elvis]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located in the SW tip of Wales, on the N coast of St. Brides Bay, about 25 km NW of Haverfordwest up the A487 [NB: the site of the old medieval church of St Elvis is south ot St. Elvis Farm]
Font Location in Church: The font was originally from the old Church of St. Elvis, but was moved to the new 19th-century church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: The font at Johnston and many others in the same county [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928:) as an early baptismal stone font consisting of a square basin mounted on a pedestal base. Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Font. C12 scalloped square bowl from the lost church of St. Elvis". Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004
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