Upton / Upton Castle chapel nr. Cosheston

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BBU01: design element - patterns - scalloped

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 10300UPT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church [formerly the castle chapel]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 2.5 km NE of Cosheston
Font Location in Church: Inside the chapel
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
The RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) reports an octagonal font in this church. Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Font. Probably C13, square bowl with small undercut scallops." [NB: it is not clear whether or not this font was originally from the castle chapel or, perhaps, brought in at some point from a nearby church]. Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted) / octagonal?
Basin Exterior Shape: square / octaonal?

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