Robeston West / West Robeston

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BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 10265ROB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NNW of Milford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
A cushion-capital font in this church noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925). Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Font. Square bowl with little corner scallops underneath, Norman." Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire" [NB: Thurlby uses "Roberston"]. [NB: cf. Index entry 'Roch chapel' for the font in that ancient church]

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