Monkton nr. Pembroke

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UB01: design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: the original 13th-century base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2009

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reproduce it received from author (e-mail of 28 July 2009)

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Scene Description: only the base is original

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2009

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reproduce it received from author (e-mail of 28 July 2009)

INFORMATION

FontID: 10091MON

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [formerly Monkton Priory]

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Country Name: Wales

Location: Pembrokeshire

Directions to Site: Located near Pembroke

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mike Berrell for the photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Mentioned in Lewis' Topographical Dictionary... (1833) "the modern font rests on the fragment of a beautiful clustered column of remote antiquity". Lloyd et al. (2004) are more precise in the datings: "Massive font of 1882, round bowl with foliage underneath. Mounted on the C13 square base with eight colonnettes."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round [modern]

Basin Exterior Shape: round [modern]

REFERENCES

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1833

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