Manorbier No. 2 / Maenorbyr / Maenorbýr / Manorbeer

INFORMATION

FontID: 10241MAN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Country Name: Wales

Location: Pembrokeshire

Directions to Site: Located on the South Pembrokeshire Heritage Coast, off (S) the A4139, 8-9 km W of Tenby

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

Two fonts noted in this church in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925). Described in Lloyed, etc. (2001) as the second baptismal font in this church: "The smaller octagonal bowl is presumably late medieval." [cf. Index entry for Manorbier No. 1 for the re-tooled Norman basin in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal

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