Carmarthen / Caerfyrddin
Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
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Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil
Scene Description: on the panels of the basin
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B02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Scene Description: several, on the panels of the basin
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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: all around the underbowl, deeply carved
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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 6
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.curchmousewebsite.co.uk]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10090CAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: Wales
Location: Carmarthenshire, Dyfed
Directions to Site: Located about 40 km NW of Swansea
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather [www.curchmousewebsite.co.uk], for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes:
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Noted In Baker-Jones (1970): ''The font is a plain hexagon, which has been retooled''. Baptismal font consisting of a hexagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with Gothic motifs: quatrefoils, rosettes, etc.; the underbowl chamfer is rather oddly adorned for this period [cf. Baker-Jones [supra] remark about re-tooling], in a pattern of deeply-carved foliage; octagonal stem with trefoil windows/arcade ornamenting the upper 2/3, the rest plain; hexagonal moulded lower base. Wooden font cover, flat and round but adorned with raised ribs in the Jacobean style, modern. The whole font is covered in a hedious coating of whitewash.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Baker-Jones, D.L., "Looking at Carmarthenshire Churches", VII (1970), The Carmarthenshire Historian, 1970