Ewenny
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Results: 3 records
R01:
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digtal image in BBC Wales [www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/sites/cowbridge/pages/ewenny_priory.shtml?4] [accessed 14 January 2007]
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view of church interior - transept
Scene Description: Watercolour of the Priory Church interior by Turner [source unknown
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2006
Image Source: digital image in the Roving Medievalist web site [http://rovingmedievalist.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html] [accessed 14 January 2007]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © BBC, 2005
Image Source: digtal image in BBC Wales [www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/sites/cowbridge/pages/ewenny_priory.shtml?4] [accessed 14 January 2007]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10043EWE
Church/Chapel: Priory Church
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: Wales
Location: Bridgend
Directions to Site: Located just S of Bridgend
Historical Region: formerly Glamorgan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [altered font?], Medieval / composite
Described in the Ewenny web site [www.mkomor.plus.com/ewenny/church.htm], with information based on Turbervill (1901) and Baddeley (1913): "The font, which is older than the church and possibly Saxon, stands upon a modern stem. In its original condition it was perfectly plain, the present moulding being added subsequently". The Church in Wales web site describes it as "a pre-Norman font" [source: www.churchinwales.org.uk/Llandaff/beaconchurches.pdf] [accessed 23 November 2006]. Orrin (1988) describes it as one of several Norman fonts that "have ben recut and carving introduced at a later date". [NB: the Priory is dated in several sources to the early 12th century, perhaps between 1111 and 1126 -- the restoration/alteration of the font may date from the major overall restoration of the priory church by Thomas Picton Tubervill [cf. Orrin (ibid.)]]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round; plain; modern
REFERENCES
Baddeley, Welbore St. Clair, "[Ewenny]", 6th ser., vol. XIII, Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1913, pp. 1; r["References"]
Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988
Turbervill, John Picton, Ewenny Priory: Monastery and Fortress, London: E. Stock, 1901
