St. Ishmaels / Llanisan yn Rhos / St. Ishmael's / Saint Ishmael
Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
BBL01: design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09124ISH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Workshop/Group/Artisan: North Devon workshop
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Ishmael in St. Ishmaels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, on the S side, just W of the S entranceway
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29497689
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Isfael [aka Ismael, Ishmael, Ysmail]
Church Address: St Ishmael's, Haverfordwest SA62 3TH, United Kingdom
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
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. The church is somewhat removed from the village, near the Haven
Historical Region: formerly Carmarthenshire
Font Notes:
Click to view
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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mike Berrel for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 352464 5732278
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.722, -5.136
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 43′ 19.2″ N, 5° 8′ 9.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, vol. 3: p. 80 fn70
- 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, no. 1051
- Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 441
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 188