Upper Pennant / Pennant Melangell
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B01: design element - motifs - knob - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the basin, like four handles
INFORMATION
FontID: 06410PEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Churchof St. Monacella [aka St. Melangell]
Church Patron Saints: St. Monacella [aka Melangell]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Powys
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Llanmerewig and Snead in the same county; also Chirbury, in Shropshire
Font Notes:
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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
Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928