Llanddeusant nr. Holyhead / Llandeusant / Llandeusaint / Llandausaint

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 09119LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th - 11th century / 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Cognate Fonts: Similar decorative treatment on the fonts at Heneglwys and Llanbeulan
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Marcellus and St. Marcell, Llanddeusant
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114773937
Church Patron Saint(s): [St. Marcellinus and St. Marcellus?]
Church Address: Llanddeusant, Isle of Anglesey LL65 4AD Wales, United Kingdom
Site Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just off (E) the A5025, 12-13 km NE of Holyhead [NB: not to be mistaken with its homonym in Carmarthenshire]
Font Notes:
Described by Peter Lord (1998-2003) as another Anglesey font decorated with a blind arcade of similar design as those on the Heneglwys and Llanbeulen fonts, with implied date to the late 10th or 11th century, as the others. Noted and illustrated in Thurlby (2006), who suggests [after Hughes] that the depressions in the arches may have held some decorative painted stone, metal or other such object.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 401045 5910948
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.33842, -4.486202
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 20′ 18.31″ N, 4° 29′ 10.33″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
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. 50 fn98
  • Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 224-225 and fig. 313