Llaniestyn / Llan Jestyn / Llaniestin

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B1R01: design element - patterns - chequered

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 December 2005 byTraed Mawr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/traedmawr/79756399/] [accessed 15 April 2010]

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B1R02: design element - motifs - sawtooth

Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)

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B1R03: design element - motifs - interlace - cross-shaped

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B1R04: symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese

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B1R05: design element - patterns - spiral fluting or piping

Scene Description: east side

Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)

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B2R01: design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

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B3R01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

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view of basin

Scene Description: north-wrthwest side

Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2005 byTraed Mawr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/traedmawr/79756398/sizes/l/in/set-72157594448514450/] [accessed 15 April 2010]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font

Scene Description: the font as it was ca. 1844, resting directly of a two-step plinth; it would be later mounted on the base on which it appears now [2010]

Image Source: engraving in Jones (1844)

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09117LLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Iestyn

Church Patron Saints: St. Iestyn [aka Iestin, Jestyn, Jestin, Justinian, Yestinus -- 6th century Breton noble -- hermit and martyr of Ramsey Island, Pembks (Farmer (1987)]

Country Name: Wales

Location: Gwynedd

Directions to Site: Located on the western end of the Lleyn Peninsula, 10-12 km SW of Pwllheli, 30-35 km WSW of Pothmadog

Historical Region: formerly Anglesey

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?

Cognate Fonts: Thematic similarity in its ornamentation with the fonts at Heneglwys and Llanbeulan

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in H.L. Jones, The Archaeological Journal (June 1844: 122-126). In Jones time, ca. 1844, the font rested directly on a two-step plinth; the base on which the font now [2010] stands must have been added later in the 19th century. Described in Lewis' Dictionary edition of 1848: a remarkably curious font probably of the twelfth century". Ditto in the National Gazetteer (1868). Romilly Allen (1884) writes: "The cross symbol does not occur frequently on fonts of the Norman period. Early examples are to be found at Llanfair y Cymwd, and at Llan Jestyn, in Anglesey [fn], also at Kea, in Cornwall" [footnote: "Archaeological Journal, vol. i, p. 126"]. Noted later in Romilly Allen (1888) as one of several "examples of fonts with ornmament of early character". Described by Peter Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003) as a baptismal font that "carries a very similar vocabulary of images" as those at Heneglwys and Llanbeulan, "including a chequerboard design" found on the side of the latter. Described and illustrated in Thurlby (2006) who notes details of relation or similarity with the font at Llanbeulan and Tregaian. The shape of the basin is oblong, with rounded angles both in and out, and tapering sides.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: oblong (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: oblong

Basin Exterior Shape: oblong

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: oblong and flat, with a wooden handle; appears modern

REFERENCES

The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003

Allen, J. Romilly, "Notes on Early Christian Symbolism", N.S., VI, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1884, pp. 380-464; r["References"]

Jones, H. Longueville [Revd.], "Remarks on some of the churches of Anglesey", 1 (June 1844), The Archaeological Journal, 1844, pp. [118]-130; r["References"]

Lowthian [of Kellington], John, "On ablution, baptism, fonts, &c.", 95-ii, December 1825, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1825, pp. 511-512; r["References"]