Begelly / Begeli / Bugeli

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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1925
Image Source: 1922 drawing in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925)
Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 10036BEG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 7 km N of Tenby, 8 km SSE of Narbeth [Coordinates: 51° 43′ 58″ N, 4° 43′ 36″ W 51.732778, -4.726667]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [re-tooled?], Norman [altered]
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925): "The font basin is square ; it has been redressed, as also its circular shaft. It may possibly be the original." Listed in Lloyd et al. (2001): "Font. Apparently the Norman reworked". The font is now plain. Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire". [NB: the entry for Begelly & Kilgetty in 'My Pembrokeshire' [www.mypembrokeshire.com] notes a holy water stoup of the Norman period in this church - unconfirmed -- not listed in BSI]

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
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