St. Harmon / St. Harmons / Saint Harmon
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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. 100)
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Scene Description: notice the modern base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lord, 2003
Image Source: Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003, vol. 3: pl. 100)
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06414HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Llanwrthwl, Tintagel, Rhayader and Silian; also fonts of the Mosan group
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Garmon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Germanus of Man [aka Garmon, German
Site Location: Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4518, 4 km NE of Rhayader (Rhayader itself is located at the junction of the A470 and A44)
Historical Region: formerly Radnorshire
Additional Comments: altered font / recycled font: the base is modern
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Harmon
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, Rhayader 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 Rhayader and Llanwrthwl as varying in size but "identical in conception". Ditto in Thurlby (2006), with an illustration. [NB: recent photographs of this font show the old basin mounted on a modern octagonal base and covered with a flat and round plain wooden cover]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: p. 80 and pl. 100
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 259 and fig. 373
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 72