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
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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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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 church exterior - northwest view
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view of church interior - altar
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09114GWY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Beuno
Church Patron Saints: St. Beuno [aka Bono, Bonus]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Gwynedd
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
Historical Region: formerly Caernarfonshire and/or Merionethshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 10th - 11th century / 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Cognate Fonts: [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).
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
Jenkins, Simon, Wales: Churches, Houses, Castles, London: Allen Lane, 2008
Pritchard, Aimee, "The origins of ecclesiastical stone architecture in Wales", The Early archaeology of the Early-Medieval Celtic churches, Leeds: Maney, 2009
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006