St. Brides / Saint Brides / Sain Fred
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10269BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Bridget
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29496806
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Brigid of Ireland [aka Brigit, Bridget, Bride, Brydoch, Brydock, Ffraed, Ffraid, Fraed]
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 17-18 km WSW of Haverfordwest
Additional Comments: recycled font: composite font -- Norman basin on later (?) bowl now serving as base
Font Notes:
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Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) as a square baptismal font. Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Font. Square bowl with scallops, a standard Norman type: it stands on the upside-down octagonal bowl of another font." Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
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, no. 928
- Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 382
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 188