Camrose / Camros

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Results: 6 records
BBL01: design element - motifs - scotia
BBL02: design element - patterns - scalloped
LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
view of basin - upper view
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 10054CAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ismael / Ishmael
Church Patron Saints: St. Isfael [aka Ismael, Ishmael, Ysmail]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
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]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Rudbaxton, Haroldston West, Lambston, Prendergast, Johnston, Brawdy and Spittal, are similar and in the immediate vecinity.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mike Berrell for his photographs of this font
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".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
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
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