Manorbier No. 1 / Maenorbyr / Maenorbýr / Manorbeer
Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
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Results: 3 records
BBL01: design element - patterns - scalloped
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
Image Source: detail of a photograph by Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk], 2004
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
Image Source: photograph by Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk], 2004
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
Image Source: detail of a photograph by Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk], 2004
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09127MAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-tooled], Norman [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: North Devon workshop
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the greater, Apostle and Martyr, Manorbier
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James%27s_Church,_Manorbier
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Address: Manorbier, Tenby SA70 7SZ, United Kingdom
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the South Pembrokeshire Heritage Coast, off (S) the A4139, 8-9 km W of Tenby
Additional Comments: recycled font: re-tooled Norman font
Font Notes:
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Two fonts noted in this church in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925). 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). Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001) as the older of two fonts in this church: "Heavily retooled Norman bowl with scallops." [cf. Index entry for Manorbier No. 2 for the later font]. 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by Lord (2003) as one of about twenty square fonts produced by a north-Devon workshop [NB: Lord cites Robert Boak's unpublished research as source for the workshop identification].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. This basin is raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal; the plinth is multi-step and modern. Very ornate font cover, with a carved square lower volume and Jacobean-style "S" frames around a pivot in the upper volume. Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of Lincoln, England, for the photograph of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 375663 5722951
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.6438, -4.797
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 38′ 37.68″ N, 4° 47′ 49.2″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes and Images area]
REFERENCES
- The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: p. 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, no. 654
- Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 275
- 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