St. Harmon / St. Harmons / Saint Harmon
Image copyright © Lord, 2003
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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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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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view of font
Scene Description: notice the modern base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lord, 2003
Image Source: Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003, vol. 3: pl. 100)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 06414HAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Garmon
Church Patron Saints: St. Germanus of Man [aka Garmon, German
Country Name: Wales
Location: Powys
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Llanwrthwl, Tintagel, Rhayader and Silian; also fonts of the Mosan group
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928