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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10247MOY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29490999
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km ENE of Newport, 8 km WSW of Cardigan [Coordinates: 52° 4′ 6″ N, 4° 44′ 52″ W 52.068333, -4.747778 -- UTM 30U 380201 5770080] [Diocese of St. Davids]
Font Notes:
A Norman font in this church noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925). Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Plain square C12 or C13 font." [NB: the same source mentions a "heavy High Victorian font, square with rounded panels, on a ring-shafted circular stem" -- the latter font not included in this Index on account of its late date]. 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, no. 722
  • Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 300
  • Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 188