Newborough / Llananno / Newborough St. Peter / Niwbwrch / Rhos Hir / Rhos Vair
Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2009
Image and permission to reproduce them received (email of 28 Nov. 2009)
Results: 10 records
B01: design element - patterns - interlace - knot
![south side of the basin [cf. side A in Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1091129017_compressed.png)
Scene Description: south side of the basin [cf. side A in Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 November 2009 by Madeleine Gray
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B02: design element - patterns - interlace - loop - continuous loop - 2-strand
![east side of the basin [cf. side B in Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1091129018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: east side of the basin [cf. side B in Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 November 2009 by Madeleine Gray
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reproduce them received (email of 28 Nov. 2009)
B03: design element - patterns - interlace - ring-knot - with saltire
Scene Description: north side of the basin [cf. side C in Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 November 2009 by Madeleine Gray [University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reproduce them received (email of 28 Nov. 2009)
B04: blank
Scene Description: the west side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 November 2009 by Madeleine Gray
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 November 2009 by Madeleine Gray [University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reproduce them received (email of 28 Nov. 2009)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Row17, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 March 2011 by Row17 [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2331706] [accessed 11 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: basin, side C
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nash-Williams, 1950
Image Source: B&W photograph in Nash-Williams (1950: pl. LXIII)
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: basin, side B
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nash-Williams, 1950
Image Source: B&W photograph in Nash-Williams (1950: pl. LXIII)
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: basin, side A
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nash-Williams, 1950
Image Source: B&W photograph in Nash-Williams (1950: pl. LXIII)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09110NEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th - 11th century / 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Cognate Fonts: In the same general shape as several other fonts in the area (e.g.: Cerrigceinwen, Llangristiolus, etc.) [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter / Eglwys St. Pedr
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter [formerly dedicated to St. Arno/Anno? / St. Mary?]
Site Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on A4080, across the Menai, 7 km WNW of Caernarfon, 20 km from Bangor
Historical Region: Hundred of Menai
Additional Comments: altered font / painted or whitewashed font [cf. FontNotes] -- e-mail source of Aimee Pritchard comments: : From: Madeleine Gray [Madeleine.Gray@newport.ac.uk] Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 2:50 PM To: Harriet Sonne Subject: FW: Anglesey Fonts
Font Notes:
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Lewis's Dictionary (1833) reports "a small church, dedicated to St. Mary, which stood at the head of the manor", and another in Llandwyn, a hamlet of Newborough: "Of the ancient church of Llanddwyn only the eastern gable, with some portion of the east window, can be seen : it was situated on a flat near the sea-shore, and was a fine structure, originally founded by St. Dwynwen, the tutelar saint of lovers, to whom it was dedicated, about the year 465". Lewis (ibid.) is not impressed by St. Peter's itself: "The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a small edifice, possessing no claims to architectural description ; it stands on an eminence in a bleak and exposed situation", and mentions nothing further about it. Jones (1846a) dates the font to the 12th century. The National Gazetteer of 1868) reports "a curious font of the 12th century" in this church [NB: the Gazetteer notes also that the church was "dedicated to St. Arno or Anno, and subsequently to St. Peter"]. Described and illustrated in Nash-Williams (1950): "Truncated comical tub font, with chamfered rim [...]. Gritstone. Decorated around the outer wall with three raised square panels containing deeply-cut designs: (a)plain (partly doubled-beaded) cruciform interlaced knot formed of four conjoined triquetras (R.A.733); (b)double vertical row of debased double-beaded loop-pattern (based on R.A.549) [...]; (c)conventional cruciform ring-knot (R.A.724, with ring). The back is plain. 12th century. Inside parish church [...]." Noted in Lewis' Dictionary edition of 1849: "A relic of a previous church is still preserved, in the font; this us probably of the twelfth century, but it has been defaced by later workmen, and has received successive coats of whitewash." In Edwards (1986) with 12th-century date. Noted and illustrated in Thurlby (2006) with references to the fonts at Cerrigceinwen and Trefdraeth and, more remotely, to those at Heneglwys and Llanbeulan, all of them in the Anglesey area, and probably dating from the 12th century. Noted and illustrated in Pritchard (2009) [NB: in a communication from Pritchard to Madelaine Gray, passed on to BSI, she writes: "Newborough - this is unlikely to be Romanesque. I have dated it as earlier on local & regional sculptural parallels. Most likely late C10th- early C11th - making it very early! Of similar date are two other Anglesey Fonts. The blank face/panel. Is fairly common. the most obvious reason being the intended loaction on the font. why decorate an area which will not be seen as it is against a wall? I have heard other suggestions, all of which sound more interesting, but none of which have any supporting evidence.."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Madeleine Gray, of the School of Education/Ysgol Addysg, University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd, for her information on, and photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 408756 5891185
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.162212, -4.364771
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 9′ 43.96″ N, 4° 21′ 53.18″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (coarse)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped, round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 50 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 46.25 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 57.5 cm [*diam.]
Notes on Measurements: * [In Nash-Williams (1950: 65) as: 23" diam. at the bottom; 20" at top; 18 1/2" h.]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: low pyramid of octagonal shape, with raised arrises and finial; modern?
REFERENCES
- The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [transcribed by Colin Hinson in www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/AGY/NewboroughStPeter/Gaz1868.html [accessed 11 September 2013]
- The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: p. 50 fn96
- Edwards, N., "Anglesey in the Early Middle Ages: the Archaeological Evidence", 19--41, Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club Transactions, 1986
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthsire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1911-1925, p. 118 and pl. 59
- Jones, H. Longueville, "Nona Mediaeva No. IV", 1, Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1846a, pp. 425-436; p. 427
- 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=47872#s13] [accessed 23 December 2006]
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1833, [transcribed by Colin Hinson in www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/AGY/NewboroughStPeter/Gaz1868.html [accessed 11 September 2013]
- Nash-Williams, Victor Erle, The Early Christian Monuments of Wales, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1950, p. 48, 49, 65 and pl. LXIII
- Pritchard, Aimee, "The origins of ecclesiastical stone architecture in Wales", The Early archaeology of the Early-Medieval Celtic churches, Leeds: Maney, 2009, p. 254 and fig. 13.3c
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 229, 230-231 and fig. 325