Rosemarket / Rhôsmarket / Rhosfarced

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B01: design element - motifs - scallop

INFORMATION

FontID: 10267ROS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ismael
Church Patron Saints: St. Isfael [aka Ismael, Ishmael, Ysmail]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km ENE Milford [Coordinates: 51° 44′ 8″ N, 4° 59′ 57″ W 51.735556, -4.999167 -- UTM 30U 361955 5733518]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-tooled], Norman [altered?]
Cognate Fonts: other such cushion-capital fonts in Pembrokeshire
A cushion-capital font in this church noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925). Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Font. Norman, cushion type, retooled". Noted in Thurlby (2006) as a baptismal font of the Norman period in the cushion-capital style

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
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