Whitchurch nr. Haverdfordwest / Tregroes nr. Solva

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St David, Whitchurch. Small and beautifully kept, this which was the original parish church of Solva. It was rebuilt between 1872 and 1874 by C.E. Buckeridge, who died before it was finished. The work was completed by John Loughborough Pearson, no less."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2015 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4586831] [accessed 27 August 2018]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Wod, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2013 by Peter Wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3468665] [accessed 27 August 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the composite baptismal font in the foreground, by the north doorway

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2015 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4586767] [accessed 27 August 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the composite baptismal font: a late-medieval basin raised on a modern pedestal base

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 July 2015 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4586767] [accessed 27 August 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10306WHI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. David
Church Patron Saints: St. David [aka David of Wales, Davidus, Dewy]
Church Location: Whitchurch, Solva. Haverfordwest SA62 6UB, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: A hamlet located just N of Solva, 19 km WNW of Haverdfordwest
Historical Region: Hundred of Dewisland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century[basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: original medieval church re-built in the 19thC
Noted n the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925). Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Font. Plain octagonal late medieval bowl on C19 base." The plain octagonal basin, now whitewashed, stands on a round pedestal stem and quadrangular lower base, the last too modern. The wooden cover is also modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.884048, -5.198280
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 52′ 48″ N, 5° 12′ 0″ W
UTM: 30U 348574 5749979

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, with metal decoration; modern

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