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BBL01: design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Berrell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2010 by Mike Berrell
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10252NOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Madoc
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29496526
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Máedóc of Ferns [aka Madog] [also / or: St. Aidan?]
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km WNW of Haverfordwest [Coordinates: 51° 49′ 17″ N, 5° 5′ 47″ W 51.821389, -5.096389 -- UTM 30U 355517 5743251]
Font Notes:
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A cushion-capital font in this church noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925). Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Font. Norman square bowl with scallops." Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire". The quadrangular basin has three large scallops on each side; raised on a broac shaft and a round to square lower base; the inner well of the basin is square on the inside and lead-lined, with a central drain.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mike Berrell for his photographs of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
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. 833
- Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 326
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 188