Capel Colman / Llan Golman / Llangolman

INFORMATION

FontID: 10059CAP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Colman [formerly a estate chapel]
Church Patron Saints: St. Colman
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 10 km WSW of Newcastle-Emlyn [Coordinates of the chapel: 52:0.9332N 4:36.0322W]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Church Notes: Church info from a leaflet available at the chapel: "In 1764 Morgan Jones the Elder, master of the nearby Cilwendeg Estate, was responsible for completely rebuilding the long neglected medieval chapel called Capel Colman at the western perimeter of Cilwendeg Park - a church so remote and forgotten that in 1721 it was singled out as being fit 'only for the solitary habitations of Owles and Jackdaws'. Morgan Jones the Younger again rebuilt the church in 1833-5 to the designs of one of his estate tenants, Daniel Davies of Blaenpwllddu Farm."
Font Notes:
Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) as a circular baptismal font. Described in Lloyd et al. (2001): "Font. Possibly C13, circular bowl and shaft". [NB: the font is probably from the original medieval chapel, unless it was brought over from the ruined medieval church of St. Michael at Pen-bedw, near Boncath?]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

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
Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004