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BH01: human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lord, 2003
Image Source: Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003, vol. 3: pl. 101)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06413RHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: The font at Llanwrthwl, Tintagel, St. Harmon and Silian; also fonts of the Mosan group
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Clement
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111366368
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Clement
Site Location: Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the A470 and A44
Historical Region: formerly Radnorshire
Font Notes:
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Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one of "the type of font with four heads or faces at about equal distances around the bowl"; he mentions other such at Llanwrthwl, Tintagel, St. Harmon and Silian. Described and illustrated by Peter Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003), who dates it to the 12th century and gives also the fonts at St. Harmon and Llanwrthwl as varying in size but "identical in conception". Ditto in Thurlby (2006), with an illustration.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
REFERENCES
- The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: 80 and pl. 101
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 259 and fig. 372
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 72