Burton nr. Pembroke
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Wood, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 May 2013 by Peter Wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3466995] [accessed 5 July 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © welshbabe, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2 Octobe 2015 by welshbabe [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4683703] [accessed 5 July 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09125BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [re-tooled], Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: North Devon workshop
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17741539
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Rd, Burton Milford Haven, SA73 1LR, UK
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km N across from Pembroke [toll bridge], E of Neyland and the A477, 12 km E of Milford Haven, 12 km S of Haverfordwest
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St David's
Historical Region: Hundred of Rhos
Additional Comments: altered font: scraped / re-tooled
Font Notes:
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Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925): "The font , a square bowl, probably of the date of the first church [i.e., Early English], stands on a circular pillar and square base ; it has been scraped and retooled." Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) on a list of mostly Welsh fonts consisting of a square basin decorated with scallop motif (includes one from Bristol St Philip's and another from Thornbury, Gloucs., both bordering with Wales). Listed by Lord (2003) as one of about twenty square fonts produced by a north-Devon workshop [NB: Lord cites Robert Boak's unpublished research as source for the workshop identification].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. Described in Lloyd et al. (2001) as "Norman, square bowl, scalloped underneath." Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire". The font is covered in whitewash. The wooden cover is square and flat, with a ring handle. The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [Source ID: 11987] notes: "Anglican parish church, medieval with unusual and rare early chapel on SE, St Andrew's chapel, possibly late C13, to which the rest of the church may have been added through the C14 to C15 or early C16 [...] C12 font, square, whitewashed with scallops and darts to underside, on round shaft and square base."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mike Berrell for the photograph of this font
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.7133, -4.9176
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 42' 47" N, 4° 55' 3" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: 80 and fn70
- 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, p. 34
- Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 137
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 188
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 87