Spittal

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10055SPI
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 [cf. FontNotes].
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29502027
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NE of Haverfordwest, halfway between this town and Fishguard [Coordinates: 51° 52′ 7.54″ N, 4° 56′ 28.68″ W 51.86876, -4.9413 -- UTM 30U 366345 5748223]
Font Notes:
Listed in the RCAHMW: "The font bowl is of square Norman type with the usual scalloped sides" [in the CISP site www.ucl.ac.uk]. Described in Lloyd et al. (2001): "Font. C12, square bowl, scalloped and chamfered below to a round pier and base." 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 Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthsire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1911-1925, vol. VII: p. 385
  • 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. 1089
  • Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 188