Gwemaffield
Image copyright © Edwin Green, 2004
Permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2004)
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view of baptistery exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edwin Green, 2004
Image Source: Edwin Green [www.shropshirebaptist.org.uk/history1.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2004)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edwin Green, 2004
Image Source: Edwin Green [www.shropshirebaptist.org.uk/history1.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2004)
INFORMATION
FontID: 09863GWE
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: Rhual Park Baptistry
Country Name: Wales
Location: Flintshire
Directions to Site: Rhual Park is located at Gwemaffield, 4 km WNW of Mold [Mold is located at the A494-A541 junction, 20 km WSW of Chester
Font Location in Church: In the park
Date: 1685
Century and Period: 17th century(late)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Edwing Green for his notes on and images of this font]
Font Notes:
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In his Shropshire Baptist History, Edwin Green shows two illustrations [artist unknown] of the baptismal pool in the Rhual Estate, at Gwemaffield, built by Baptists in 1685. There have been claims that Vavasor Powell, leader of the Calvinistic Confession of Faith, one of the Puritan branches of the Baptists, was baptised in it in 1655, Green states that "this cannot be correct as that baptistry was not built until 1685." [source: www.shropshirebaptist.org.uk/history1.htm] [We are grateful to Edwing Green for his notes on and images of this font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (sunken)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square