Bayvil / Beifil
Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
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B01: design element - motifs - scallop - 4
Scene Description: one big scallop on each of the four sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Mike Berrell for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Mike Berrell for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1925
Image Source: 1922 drawing in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925)
Copyright Instructions: PD
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Mike Berrell for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10037BAY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Bayvil
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km ENE of Newport
Additional Comments: altered font? base not matched?
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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mike Berrell for his photograph of this font
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, p. 15 and fig. 60
- Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 128
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 187, 188