Llanddeussant nr. Holyhead / Llandeusant / Llandeusaint / Llandausaint
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 9
INFORMATION
FontID: 09119LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Marcellus and St. Marcell
Church Patron Saints: [St. Marcellinus and St. Marcellus?]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd
Directions to Site: Located just off (E) the A5025, 12-13 km NE of Holyhead [NB: not to be mistaken with its homonym in Carmathenshire]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 10th - 11th century / 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Cognate Fonts: Similar decorative treatment on the fonts at Heneglwys and Llanbeulan
Font Notes:
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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.
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
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006