St. Davids No. 1 / Saint Davids / Tyddewi
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 February 2022)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 16 arches - pointed arches
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Davids Cathedral: c12th font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 7 June 2021 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7058646] [accessed 13 February 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "The West Front of St David's Cathedral - building started 1180-82 then constructed in the Transitional Norman style using fine-grained, purple Cambrian sandstone."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 2 October 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 February 2022)
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Davids Cathedral: The nave"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 7 June 2021 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7058660] [accessed 13 February 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Davids Cathedral: The nave"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 7 June 2021 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7058688] [accessed 13 February 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "St David's Cathedral - Font. Inside the 800 year old cathedral, the font [i.e., basin] may date back to pre-Norman bishops while the base is 13th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 2 October 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 February 2022)
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St David's Cathedral. Rose window and font inside the 800 year old cathedral." [NB: the octagonal font cover stands on the ground, to the right of the font]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 2 October 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 February 2022)
INFORMATION
FontID: 09111DAV
Church/Chapel: St Davids Cathedral Church / Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi
Church Patron Saints: St. David [aka David of Wales, Davidus, Dewy]
Church Location: The Pebbles, St Davids, Haverfordwest SA62 6RD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: : +44 1437 720202
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located off road A487, 25 km WNW of Haverfordwest, in the westernmost tip of the Pembroke peninsula
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Davids
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the Chapel of St. Thomas, at the W end of the S aisle
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this font and church
Church Notes: original monastic site founded before 589 AD; present cathedral started 1181; many restorations underwent since 1793
Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) as an octagonal font. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "supports are modern". Listed in James' Phaidon guide (1985) as "a beautiful 13C double font". Described in Lloyd et al. (2001) as an octagonal font with pointed panels, probably of the 13th century Early English period. The octagonal basin has a moulded upper rim, two pointed panels on each side; raised on a broad central shaft and eight outer colonnettes, on an octagonal lower base, and a three-step plinth.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.881944,
-5.268333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 52′ 55″ N,
5° 16′ 6″ W
UTM: 30U 343878 5750340
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat; appears modern
REFERENCES
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of the County of Pembroke, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1925
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004
Mehling, Franz N., Great Britain and Ireland: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985