St. Ishmaels / Llanisan yn Rhos / St. Ishmael's / Saint Ishmael
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BBL01: design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
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LB01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
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UB01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
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view of basin - upper view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09124ISH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ishmael
Church Patron Saints: St. Isfael [aka Ismael, Ishmael, Ysmail]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B4327, 14-15 km SW of Carmarthen, about 22 km W of Pembroke, and about the same distance SW of Haverfordwest [Coordinates: 51° 43′ 21.25″ N, 5° 8′ 13.38″ W 51.72257, -5.13705]. The church is somewhat removed from the village, near the Haven
Historical Region: formerly Carmarthenshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, on the S side, just W of the S entranceway
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Workshop/Group/Artisan: North Devon workshop
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mike Berrel for his photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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The RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) reports a cushion-type font I this church. Baker-Jones (1970) notes: ''In some churches along the coast there used to be many Norman fonts which had characteristics of their own and showed the advance of the invader into these parts . Thus in the churches of St . Mary, KidwelIy, Penbre, St . Ishmael's and Llanstephan the original fonts were of the square Norman type, having shallow bowls and ornamented with plain cushion capitals . The first three have disappeared but sketches of them still exist''. Listed by Peter Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003) as one of about twenty square fonts produced by a north-Devon workshop [NB: Lord cites Robert Boak's unpublished research as source for the workshop identification]. The decoration of these fonts consists chiefly of scallop and/or foliage motifs.. [NB: Lord gives the county as Carmarthenshire; St. Ishmaels is now Pembrokeshire]. Described in Lloyd (2001): "Font. C12 square scalloped bowl." Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire". The font is now [July 2010] whitewashed from top to bottom.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: quadrangular, flat and plain, with handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003
Baker-Jones, D.L., "Looking at Carmarthenshire Churches", VII (1970), The Carmarthenshire Historian, 1970
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of the County of Pembroke, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1925
Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006