Rosemarket / Rhôsmarket / Rhosfarced

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10267ROS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-tooled], Norman [altered?]
Cognate Fonts: other such cushion-capital fonts in Pembrokeshire
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Ismael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29498829
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Isfael [aka Ismael, Ishmael, Ysmail]
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: recycled font: re-tooled Norman font
Font Notes:
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, no. 908
  • Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 379
  • Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 187