Llansantffraed-Cwmdeuddwr / Llansanffraid Cwmteuddwr
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human figure - head - 5
Scene Description: of the "paddle-head" type
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © University of Wales Press, 1998-2003
Image Source: Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003, vol. 3: pl. 112)
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © University of Wales Press, 1998-2003
Image Source: Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003, vol. 3: pl. 112)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 09154LLA
Church/Chapel: [now at the Church of St. Bride, in Llansantffraed-Cwmdeuddwr]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Powys
Directions to Site: Llansantffraed-Cwmdeuddwr is located just outside Rhayader at the crossroads of the A470, the A44 and the B4518
Historical Region: formerly Radnorshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated by Lord [after Drake] in Diwylliant... (1998-2003, vol. 3: 86 and pl. 112) who dates it to the 12th century: "A stoup from the chapel of a monastic grange at Capel Madog in the Elan Valley is carved with paddle-shaped heads. Its architectutal context suggests a late twelfth-century date, but the iconography is a mystery and the style of the carving resonates strongly with heads on objects such as a small copper alloy plaque of c.150-50 BC found at Tal-y-llyn", thereby underlining the Celtic roots of the style, as he does for the Llanwenog font [NB: it should pointed out that this type of "paddle-head" motif appears carved on fonts of the Romanesque period throught Europe, with several examples in the Pyrénées, on both the French and the Spanish sides].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003