Llanstadwell / Lanstetwall / Lanstowel

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2009 by Mike Berrell
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10219LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-tooled?] [basin only], Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Tudwall
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29505771
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Tugdual [aka Pabu, Tudal, Tudec, Tudius, Tudwal, Tudy, Tugal, Tutual, Tutuam, Uda]
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SE of Milford [Coordinates: 51° 42′ 0″ N, 4° 58′ 0″ W 51.7, -4.966667 -- UTM 30U 364093 5729503]
Additional Comments: recycled font? perhaps an earlier one re-tooled / altered font : only the basin is original
Font Notes:
The RCAHMW (Pembrokeshire, 1925) reports that this church was "most drastically restored in 1876 [...] The font (29 in. by 25 in., with basin 19 in. by 18 in.) is plain and stands on a modern circular shaft and square base." Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Font. Square bowl, perhaps the Norman one pared down". Only the basin remains now, the base being a modern replacement; the basin is square and plain with tapering sides. The wooden font cover is a square platform with raised scrolls and ball finial; also modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mike Berrell for the photograph of this font

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 47.5 x 45 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 72.5 x 62.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in the RCAHMW (Pembrokeshire, 1925)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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, no. 532, p. 179
  • Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 257