Hayscastle / Hays-Castle

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B01: design element - motifs - groove

a number of them, both vertical and horizontal, framing the sides
Scene Description: a number of them, both vertical and horizontal, framing the sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ceridwen, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by ceridwen [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1248597]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover in context

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ceridwen, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by ceridwen [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1248597]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 09126HAY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-cut], Norman [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: North Devon workshop
Cognate Fonts: many other such fonts in this area
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Hayscastle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114643369
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Hayscastle Cross, Haverfordwest SA62 5PU, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7837 420064
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4330, 12 km WNW of Haverfordwest
Additional Comments: altered font: re-cut
Font Notes:
Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925): "The font is of the cushion type; it has been refaced and spoilt. The bowl is now 22 1/2 inches square externally; the entire height is 29 inches." 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by Lord (2003) as one of about twenty square fonts produced by a north-Devon workshop [NB: Lord cites Robert Boak's unpublished research as source for the workshop identification].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. Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 358335 5750718
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.8892, -5.0586
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 53′ 21.12″ N, 5° 3′ 30.96″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 72.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 56.25 x 56.25 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches as the measure,emts of the re-cut font, in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat; flat cross on the top; knob handle; modern

REFERENCES

  • The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: 80 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. 117
  • 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