Moylgrove / Moylegrove / Trewyddel

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BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 10247MOY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman? / Transitional?
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
Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006