Rudbaxton / Rudepac's Town / Rudepagstonia
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Results: 7 records
B01: design element - motifs
Scene Description: a crudely rendered quatrefoil or cross? [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BBL01: design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ceridwen, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2007 by ceridwen
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: a fiddling pig
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ceridwen, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2007 by ceridwen
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10053RUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: other such fonts at Haroldston West, Lambston, Prendergast, Johnston, Brawdy, Camrose and Spittal [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, near the door
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Church,_Rudbaxton
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km N of Haverfordwest [Coordinates of the church: 51:50.7873N 4:57.7674W]
Font Notes:
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A cushion-capital font in this church noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925). Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) on a list of mostly Welsh fonts consisting of a square basin decorated with scallop motif (includes one from Bristol St Philip's and another from Thornbury, Gloucs., both bordering with Wales). Listed in Lloyd et al. (2001): "Font. C12, square bowl with scallops, circular pedestal." The Carmarthenshire Family History Society web site [http://CarmarthenshireFHS.co.uk] is a little more descriptive: "Fine old Norman font. This consists of a square basin scalloped below, and ornamented on one side with a rude quatrefoil or Saint Andrew's cross. The basin has a thick cylindrical stem without any ornament, the whole standing on a square base." This same source mentions the fonts at Haroldston West, Lambston, Prendergast, Johnston, Brawdy, Camrose and Spittal, as being similar and in the immediate vecinity. Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mike Berrell for his photographs of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Notes: metal staples were present in the upper rim for the locking mechanism
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. 918
- Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 380
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 188
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 87