Llanfair-yn-Neubwll / Llanfair-yn-Neubyll / Llanvair-yn-Neubwll
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09115LLA
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. Mary [now de-consecrated]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Llanfair-yn-Neubwll, Anglesey, United Kingdom
Site Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of Expressway 3, 7-8 km SE of Holyhead, just across from Holy Island
Font Notes:
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Described by Peter Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003) as a an instance of a baptismal font of the Anglesey area workshops, that "carry decoration which is little more than incised". Lord (ibid.) dates most of these fonts in the late 10th or 11th century. Thurlby (2006) [after the RCAHM] mentions a decoration on this font consisting of "seven square panels created with simple incisions filled with an incised saltire cross with a single incised chevron in each quadrant".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 396365 5903411
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.2698, -4.554
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 16′ 11.28″ N, 4° 33′ 14.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: p. 49 fn94
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 230