Llangernyw

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B01: design element - motifs - varied - in a quatrefoil - in a circle

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UB01: design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 8

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10211LLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Digain

Church Patron Saints: St. Digain [aka Dygain]

Country Name: Wales

Location: Aberconwy & Colwyn

Directions to Site: Located on the A548, between Llanrwst and Llanfair Talhaiarn, 12 km S of Abergele, in the area now known as Bro Cernyw. old western Clwyd

Historical Region: Denbighshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Tudor

Church Notes: unusual [in Wales] cruciform church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of the Perpendicular period consisting of an octagonal basin raised on a stem and lower base of the same shape; the sides of the basin are decorated with a variety of motifs and symbols inscribed in quatrefoiled panels; much of the upper rim is missing [cf. infra]; the underbowl is plain; the stem has trefoiled windows on the sides; the lower base is plain. On a modern plinth. Noted in the Eastern Conwy Churches Survey of the CPAT [www/cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/conwy/16869.htm]. Firbank (2001) writes that "on fair days, butchers hung their wares from hooks in the church porch, and sharpened their knives on the stone rim of the Tudor font, a scandal deplored by the rural dean. You can see that the stone is worn down on one side where the font was used as a knife-sharpener." [NB: an unknown or unrecorded source attributes the wear on the upper rim to the fact that soldiers of the Civil War used to sharpen their swords].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 454214 5893821

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining [it may have been lost; this soft porous stone must have had a lining originally]

REFERENCES

Firbank, Johanna, "Delights off the Beaten Track", Oct 19 2001, IC North Wales, 2001, pp. [unpaged]; r["References"]