St. Brides / Saint Brides / Sain Fred

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BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 10269BRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bridget
Church Patron Saints: St. Brigid of Ireland [aka Brigit, Bridget, Bride, Brydoch, Brydock, Ffraed, Ffraid, Fraed]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 17-18 km WSW of Haverfordwest
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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
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