Johnston
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BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop
Scene Description: around the lower basin side
INFORMATION
FontID: 05916JOH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SSW of Haverfordwest down the A4076
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Rudbaxton, Haroldston West, Lambston, Prendergast, Johnston, Brawdy, Camrose and Spittal, as similar and in the immediate vecinity.
Font Notes:
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A cushion-capital font in this church is 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). Described in Lloyd et al. (2001): "Norman font, square scalloped on a circular pedestal". The Carmarthenshire Family History Society web site [http://CarmarthenshireFHS.co.uk] mentions the fonts at Rudbaxton, Haroldston West, Lambston, Prendergast, Johnston, Brawdy, Camrose and Spittal, as similar and in the immediate vecinity. Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
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
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