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BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 10207LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. David
Church Patron Saints: St. David [aka David of Wales, Davidus, Dewy]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located on the A40, 5 ENE of Narbeth, about 15 km NNE of Tenby, near the Carmarthenshire border
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) as a font of the Norman period. Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Font. Much-repaired-square bowl, probably Norman." Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of the County of Pembroke, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1925
Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006