Llanfair-yn-Neubwll / Llanfair-yn-Neubyll / Llanvair-yn-Neubwll

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B01: symbol - cross - saltire

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 09115LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [now de-consecrated]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Wales
Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd
Directions to Site: Located 7-8 km SE of Holyhead, just across from Holy Island
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 10th - 11th century / 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006