Bayvil / Beifil

Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
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Results: 4 records
B01: design element - motifs - scallop - 4
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10037BAY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 5 km ENE of Newport
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mike Berrell for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925): "The font is 20 inches square by 8 inches deep, interior measurements, and stands on a short circular pillar; the total height is 26 inches." In Lloyd et al. (2001): "Font. Late 12C, square, cushion type." Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire". Noted in The Friends of Friendless Churches web site [www.friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk] as "a modest twelfth century square font" inside Bayvil St Andrew's. The basin is a crude work, and now much weathered; the circular base is probably an upside-down basin or old garden planter.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining
Font Height (with Plinth): 65 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 50 x 50 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925)]
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