Johnston

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 05916JOH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Rudbaxton, Haroldston West, Lambston, Prendergast, Johnston, Brawdy, Camrose and Spittal, as similar and in the immediate vecinity.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17742351
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SSW of Haverfordwest down the A4076
Font Notes:
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, no. 348
  • Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 234
  • 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. 25, 87