Pistyll
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B01: design element - patterns - interlace - chain-link
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R01: design element - motifs - scallop
Scene Description: all around the upper rim side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lord, 2003
Image Source: colour photograph in Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003 vol. 3: fig. 57)
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view of basin
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lord, 2003
Image Source: colour photograph in Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003 vol. 3: fig. 57)
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church interior - altar
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09114GWY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th - 11th century / 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Beuno, Pistyll / Eglwys Sant Beuno
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Beuno%27s_Church,_Pistyll
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Beuno [aka Bono, Bonus]
Church Address: Pistyll, Pwllheli LL53 6LR, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1758 720707
Site Location: Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the N coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, in Caernarfon Bay, 5 km E of Morfa Nefyn, 30 km SW of Caernarfon down the A499-B4417
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bangor
Historical Region: formerly Caernarfonshire and/or Merionethshire
Additional Comments: damaged font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated by Peter Lord in Diwylliant... (1998-2003): inverted bucket-shaped basin decorated with continuous "Manx-style ring-chain". Lord (ibid.) suggests that the "Pistyll font is closest in style to that at Llangristiolus, Anglesey, but the comparison is rendered difficult by the fact that the latter font was recut during the Victorian rebuilding of the church", and dates the Pistyll font to the 10th-11th century. The basin is illustrated in Thurlby (2006), who argues against Lord's dating of this object to the 10th-11th centuries, and offers instead the decoration on the Romanesque fonts at Vänge and Mårdaklev, both in Sweden, as related to the chain-link pattern on the Pistyll font. [NB: the lower basin side and underbowl are badly damaged]. Noted in Jenkins (2008). Noted and illustrated in Pritchard (2009).
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 399911 5867981
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.9521, -4.4898
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 57′ 7.56″ N, 4° 29′ 23.28″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, inverted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: p. 49, fn95 and fig. 57
- Jenkins, Simon, Wales: Churches, Houses, Castles, London: Allen Lane, 2008, p. 243
- 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. 13.3d
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 227-228 and fig. 321