Upton / Upton Castle chapel nr. Cosheston

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10300UPT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Church [formerly the castle chapel]
Font Location in Church: Inside the chapel
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Chapel
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2.5 km NE of Cosheston
Additional Comments: recycled font? : perhaps brought into the castle chapel from a nearby church
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, no. 1134
  • Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 489
  • Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 188