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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a circle - 11
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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BBL01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10075LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17744092
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Site Location: Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A4042, between Abergavenny and Pontypool
Font Notes:
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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, p. 173 and fig. 245