Jeffreston / Jeffreyston

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10032JEF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Other fonts of this type and date in this county at Rudbaxton, Haroldston West, Lambston, Prendergast, Johnston, Brawdy, Camrose, Spittal, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Jeffrey and St. Oswald
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17742292
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Jeffrey & St. Oswald
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4586, 9 km NNW of Tenby, 11 SSW of Narbeth
Font Notes:
Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) as a cushion-capital type font. Listed in Lloyd et al. (2001): "Font. C12. Large square bowl, scalloped underneath". The shaft of the base and the lower base are both circular and the font is said to be of a local type [source: www.peachmelba.freeserve.co.uk/page13.html]. Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

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, p. 345
  • Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 233
  • Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 188