Camrose / Camros
Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
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Results: 6 records
BBL01: design element - motifs - scotia
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
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BBL02: 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
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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 font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Romilly Allen (1877)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: The moldings and scallops on the upper rim are part of the lead lining.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10054CAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Rudbaxton, Haroldston West, Lambston, Prendergast, Johnston, Brawdy and Spittal, are similar and in the immediate vecinity.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Ismael / Ishmael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17741554
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Isfael [aka Ismael, Ishmael, Ysmail]
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Haverfordwest [Coordinates: 51° 50′ 25.08″ N, 5° 0′ 29.88″ W 51.8403, -5.0083 -- UTM 30U 361646 5745183]
Additional Comments: recycled font: now in use in the later church
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Romilly Allen (1877): "At this end of the church [i.e., the west] is a beautiful old Norman font, which, however, has several dangerous cracks in it, and is altogether in a very dilapidated state." Noted and illustrated in the RCAHMW Pembroke, 1925). Described in Lloyd et al. (2001): "Norman Font, scalloped square bowl, tall cylindrical pedestal with rolls." Described in the Pembrokeshire Parishes site by Jon Hudson (2000) [source: http://members.lycos.co.uk/Graham_Davies/Rhos100/Camrose.html?]: "A Norman font, which is without carving or any ornament. The font also dates from the 12th century and is no doubt a relic from the earlier church." The Carmarthenshire Family History Society web site [http://CarmarthenshireFHS.co.uk] mentions the fonts at Rudbaxton, Haroldston West, Lambston, Prendergast, Johnston, Brawdy, Camrose and Spittal, as 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: two?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
REFERENCES
- Allen, J. Romilly, "Camrose Church", XXIX (4th series) (January 1877), Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1877, pp. 214-219; p. 218, 219 and pl. on following page
- 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, no. 110 and pl. 48
- Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 149
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 188