Monkton nr. Pembroke
Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2009
Image and permission to reproduce it received from author (e-mail of 28 July 2009)
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UB01: design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: the original 13th-century base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2009
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)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: only the base is original
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2009
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
Font ID: 10091MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [formerly Monkton Priory]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nicholas_%26_St_John,_Monkton
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Pembroke
Additional Comments: recycled font: composite font: basin is 1882 -- base is 13th-century / aletered font: the basin is Victorian
Font Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mike Berrell for the photograph of this font
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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=47873] [accessed 14 December 2006]
- Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 297