Penally / Penalley / Penaley / Penalun

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 09128PEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: North Devon workshop
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas and St. Teilo, Penally
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17743245
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra & St. Teilo
Church Notes: the church has an good Celtic cross [used to be in the churchyard; now inside the church
Church Address: Dolwen, Tenby SA70 7PE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1834 842068
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A4139, just SW of Tenby
Font Notes:
A square font in this church noted 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). Noted in the Tenby Benefice's web site [www.tenbybenefice.co.uk] as a Late Norman font: "square, as are a number of other Pembrokeshire fonts". 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by Lord (2003) as one of about twenty square fonts produced by a north-Devon workshop [NB: Lord cites Robert Boak's unpublished research as source for the workshop identification].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". A stoup in the south porch of this church noted in Rickman (1850).

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 380839 5724607
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.6598, -4.7228
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 39′ 35.28″ N, 4° 43′ 22.08″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square

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. 848
  • Parker, John Henry, A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture, Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1850, p. 448
  • 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