Castlemartin / Castle Martin

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BBU01: design element - motifs - scallop

the scalloped motif is around the upper basin side, except at the corners
Scene Description: the scalloped motif is around the upper basin side, except at the corners
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lord, 2003
Image Source: Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003, vol. 3: fig. 99)
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BBU02: design element - motifs - foliage

one double leaf at each corner of the upper basin side
Scene Description: one double leaf at each corner of the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lord, 2003
Image Source: Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003, vol. 3: fig. 99)
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

one on the top of the stem and three more, graded, forming the upper level of the lower base
Scene Description: one on the top of the stem and three more, graded, forming the upper level of the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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view of font and cover

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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view of font in context

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian Wright, 2001
Image Source: Lloyd, etc. (2001)
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view of basin - detail

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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06132CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Clovelly, Kingston Seymour, etc. The font at Hinton Blewitt is almost identical, according to Lord, etc. [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, centre nave, W end, opposite the S entrance [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Michael_and_All_Angels,_Castlemartin,_Pembrokeshire
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 8 km WSW of Pembroke
Additional Comments: altered font? / moved font? [cf. FontNotes about the original location of the font by the tower entrance]
Font Notes:
Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925). Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a square mounted baptismal font of the Norman period "where the bowl is scalloped near the top instead of at its lower rim". Described and illustrated in Lord (2003), who dates it to the 12th century and points out the "fonts at Hinton Blewitt itself and at Castlemartin in Pembrokeshire are identical." He actually suggests that the workshop that produced both fonts may have been located at Hinton Blewitt, in Avon. Ditto in Lloyd et al. (2004). Lord's illustration shows a delicate double leaf filling the scallop motifs at the angles. Thurlby (2006) follows in Lord's path and notes the similarities in the treatment of the decorative elements on the fonts at Castlemartin, Chelwood and Hinton Blewett. The font is of the type common in this area: the basin is square at the top, shaped like a cushion capital with rounded bowl and underbowl; raised on a circular pedestal and round-to-square lower base. The Monkton Rectorial Benefice web site [www.revjones.fsnet.co.uk/michael/michael.html] reports that the main entrance to the church, now blocked, appears to have been in the west, through the tower and that, "just inside the doorway is a flagstone, which appears to have once supported the font. It has remained unmoved and it is in just the position where it should have been if this was the main entrance." [NB: the font is now [2004] at the south door. This same source, however, refers to the font as "a copy of the medieval font at Lamphey", which is not in either the design or in the ornamentation].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm
Notes on Measurements: Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003: 80)

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat

REFERENCES

  • The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: p. 80 and fig. 99
  • 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. 147
  • Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 163
  • Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, 187-188 and fig. 272
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 34, 85, 87