Wiston nr. Haverfordwest / Castle Gwys / Wizton

Results: 2 records

BBU01: design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 10307WIS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 8 km ENE of Haverfordwest, 24 km NE of Pembroke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-tooled], Norman [altered]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
The RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) reports a cushion-capital font in this church. Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Font. Square scalloped Norman bowl, cable moulding on the pedestal. Retooled." Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
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