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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a circle - 11
INFORMATION
FontID: 10075LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Country Name: Wales
Location: Monmouthshire
Directions to Site: Located on the A4042, between Abergavenny and Pontypool
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Friends of Torfaen Museum Trust site (1996) [www.roger.j.moss.btinternet.co.uk] [accessed 11 December 2006] notes: "The C13 semicircular font is decorated with a band of daisies [..] and wheels with cable moulding". Thurlby (2006) writes: "elegant round bowl decorated with eleven roundels filled with a variety of symmetrically petalled flowers above a rope moulding at the bottom [...] Newman wondered if the decoration was later, but I see no reason to doubt a late twelfth-century date." [NB: the different interpretation of the two sources is easily explained by the type of motif described in the first as 'wheels', which can also be read as flowers with triangular petals]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round; probably modern
REFERENCES
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006