Bosherston No. 1 / Llanfihangel-clogwyn-gofan
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Michael and All Angels, Bosherston"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Hughes, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 March 2022 by Alan Hughes [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7119094] [accessed 9 March 2024]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the much-altered Norman font
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Michael's & All Angels, Bosherton: font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 25 Sugust 2019 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6263401] [accessed 9 March 2024]
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view of font and stoup in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Square Norman font, the decoration machined away, Church of St Michael and All Angels, Bosherston, Pembrokeshire" -- the altered Norman font and, on the floor, to the left, the damaged stoup basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew H Jackson, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph October 2010 by Andrew H Jackson, in British Listed Buildings [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300005927-st-michael-and-all-angels-church-stackpole-and-castlemartin/photos/119436] [accessed 9 March 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10004BOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Pembroke SA71 5DN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1646 563574
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located off the B4319, near Pembroke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, just inside the main door
Century and Period: 12th century [re-tooled?], Norman [altered?]
Cognate Fonts: many such others in this area; Castlemartin, for example
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Bosherston in the Domesday survey. Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925): "The font has been scraped and altered type commonly found in the county." Described in Lloyd et al. (2004): "Font -- Apparently a refashioning of the Norman one", of "cushion-capital form". According to this Parish web site [www.revjones.fsnet.co.uk/bosherston/], "it is now lead lined and covered with an oak lid". In Thurlby (2006). The listing for this church in British Listed Buildings [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300005927-st-michael-and-all-angels-church-stackpole-and-castlemartin] [accessed 9 March 2024] notes: "Church of perhaps C12, extensively restored in 1855 [...] Square Norman font, scraped."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.6154, -4.9392
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 36' 55" N, 4° 56' 21" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, oolite (Barnack stone)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
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
Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006