Llanllwchaiarn / Llanllwchaearn / Llanllwchayrn / Llanllwchuarn / Llanlocharen

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind

Scene Description: in very shallow relief

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in the Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1918-1919): 71, in the Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales [https://damsssl.llgc.org.uk/iiif/image/1396373/full/763,/0/default.jpg] [accessed 25 July 2019]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: Originally it had one at each corner of the basin, but only one has survived

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Llwchaiarn’s church, Llanllwchaiarn was the parish church of Llanllwchaiarn, now within the community of Newtown with Llanllwchaiarn and lies within the historic county of Montgomeryshire. The church occupies a position on rising ground overlooking the river Severn and is to the north east of Newtown. The present church was rebuilt in 1815. In 2011 the medieval carved screen, originally from St Mary’s church in Newtown, was re-positioned in Llanllwchaiarn church "

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2015 by Tyssil [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Llwchaiarn’s_church,_Llanllwchaiarn_02.jpg] [accessed 25 July 2019]

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital image of a 1796 painting by John Ingleby [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ingleby_Llanllwchaiarn_02.png] [accessed 25 July 2019]

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view of church interior - looking northeast

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Llwchaiarn’s church, Llanllwchaiarn. Medieval screen in gallery at west end of church."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2015 by Tyssil [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Llanllwchaiarn_02.JPG] [accessed 25 July 2019]

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06341LLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Llwchaiarn

Church Patron Saints: St. Llywchairn [aka Llwchaiarn / Llwchearn / Hychan?]

Church Location: Llanllwchaiarn, Newtown SY16 2EF, UK

Country Name: Wales

Location: Powys

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4568 [aka Canal Rd], on the N banks of the Severn river, 1-2 km NE of Newtown, in Powys

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Asaph

Historical Region: formerly Montgomeryshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: perhaps an original church of the 6th or 7thC here; church documented in the taxatio of 1254 and of 1291; re-built 1815

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry found in Meyrick (1808). Lewis' Dictionary of 1833 informs: "the font, which is of great antiquity, is square, an ornamented at each angle with a human head". The entry for this church in Evans (1914) notes: "The ancient Font was discarded when the olf Church was rebuilt about 1863; the bowl and portion of the stem are now deposited in the vestry". Tyrrel-Green (1928): "The much mutilated bowl at Llanllwchaiarn (Cardigan) shows a kindred design upon a square bowl with a shallow arcading and a head at each angle." Peter Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003) writes: "Llanllwchaearn, location of one of the fonts of the four-headed type, though only a single head remains". Noted and illustrated in the Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1918-1919): 71, in the Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales [https://journals.library.wales/view/1386666/1396091/92#?cv=92&m=18&c=0&s=0&manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fdamsssl.llgc.org.uk%2Fiiif%2F2.0%2F1386666%2Fmanifest.json&xywh=-264%2C547%2C2787%2C2188] [accessed 25 July 2019]. The entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/421135/details/st-llwchaiarns-church-llanllwchaiarn-newtown] [accessed 14 January 2020] notes: "St Llwchaiarn's is a Georgian church built in brick 1815-16 on the site of an earlier stone church", but mentions no font in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.5232, -3.2916

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 23.52″ N, 3° 17′ 29.76″ W

UTM: 30U 480216 5819273

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1833

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928