Llysyfran / Lesfrayne / Lisyfraen / Llysvrane / Llysyvran / Lysfrane / Lysurane

Image copyright © St. Meilyr's Church, 2010
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Results: 4 records
LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
LB02: design element - motifs - spur?
Scene Description: clamping the roll moulding; or, are they animal heads?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St. Meilyr's Church, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 April 2010, St Meilyr's Church [http://www.llysyfranchurch.co.uk/images/font2.jpg]
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view of basin
INFORMATION
FontID: 10222LLY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Meilyr
Church Patron Saints: St. Meilyr
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 15 km NE of Haverfordwest
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: A nine-sided font at Bigby (Lincs.)
Font Notes:
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Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) as an octagonal font. Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Medieval font, nine-sided bowl on a round shaft with roll-mould and spur feet." Described in the Parish web site [http://www.llysyfranchurch.co.uk/history.html] [accessed 8 December 2010]: "The limestone font has a rounded octagonal bowl and a cylindrical stem, from the 14th – 15th centuries, on a square, claw-moulded base, probably from a different font." The font as it stands now [2010] is an off mixture: the polygonal basin appears to have some pattern on it, but is very worn; it is raised of plain cylindrical stem fitted onto a lower base with a fat roll moulding clamped down to a quadrangular platform by four spurs; the whole stands on a two-step narrow square plinth, and is heavily whitewashed.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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