Upper Pennant / Pennant Melangell

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06410PEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Llanmerewig and Snead in the same county; also Chirbury, in Shropshire
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Churchof St. Monacella [aka St. Melangell]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Melangell%27s_Church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Monacella [aka Melangell]
Site Location: Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4518, about 5 km S of the A470, 30-35 km WWN of Newtown
Historical Region: formerly Montgomeryshire
Font Notes:
Noted in Archaeologia cambrensis (issues of 1848 (vol. 3: 137, 324ff) and 1877 (vol. 32: 320). Lewis' Dictionary (1849) reports on a number of objects in the church: "These Norman relics, with the font, are undoubtedly fragments of the original building." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a common type of early baptismal font having a bowl with "four equidistant projections giving the appearance of rude handles"; he mentions the fonts at Llanmerewig and Snead in Montgomeryshire [now Powys] and the one at Chirbury in Hereford [now Shropshire], as being of the same type. In Rees (2003): "solid Norman font".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=47877] [accessed 20 December 2006]
  • Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003, p. 125
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 72