Mitchel Troy / Llanfihangel Troddi / Llanvihangel Troddi / Mitchell Troy / Mitcheltroy
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 June 2024)
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view of font
Scene Description: the Victorian font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2023 by Colin Smith
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view of font
Scene Description: the medieval font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2023 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - fishing net
Scene Description: on the Victorian font -- Source caption: "The font at St Michael has fish and the ropes of a fishing net carved into the outer surface of the bowl."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Moseley, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2009 by Keith Moseley [www.flickr.com/photos/imagined_horizons/372064370/in/photostream/] [accessed 12 July 2018]
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animal - fish
Scene Description: on the Victorian font -- Source caption: "The font at St Michael has fish and the ropes of a fishing net carved into the outer surface of the bowl."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Moseley, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2009 by Keith Moseley [www.flickr.com/photos/imagined_horizons/3720643701/in/photostream/] [accessed 12 July 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2023 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pauline Eccles, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 October 2008 by Pauline Eccles [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1024906] [accessed 12 July 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Michael and All Angels, Mitchel Troy. A Church in Wales church built in the Middle Ages. Records of baptisms, weddings and burials date back to 1590, but the church is probably several centuries older. One source states that the church was built in 1208."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaggery, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2011 by Jaggery [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2385866] [accessed 12 July 2018]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the medieval font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2023 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 June 2024)
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2023 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 June 2024)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Moseley, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2009 by Keith Moseley [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parish_Church_of_St_Michael,_Mitcheltroy.jpg] [accessed 12 July 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12366MIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Workshop/Group/Artisan: fish font
Cognate Fonts: Llanwenarth, Pen-y-Clawdd and St Maughans.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, just right of the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Previous Font Location(s): original church unknown [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: present church chiefly an 1870s re-building of the medieval building
Church Address: St Michael, Mitchel Troy, Monmouth NP25 4HZ , UK
Site Location: Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the A40, 4 km SW of Monmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Monmouth
Historical Region: formerly Monmouthshire
Additional Comments: abandoned font / disused font / restored font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Mitchel Troy in the Domesday survey. The Monmouth Group of Parishes site [www.stmaryspriorychurch.org.uk] informs: "The elaborate font, decorated with netted fish and water lilies, was installed at the reconstruction and is to the left of the South door. To the right is the old Norman font which was found in the Rectory shrubbery some years ago." Noted in Thurlby (2006) as one of a group of tub-shaped fonts in the area: Llanwenarth, Mitchell [sic] Troy, Pen-y-Clawdd and St Maughans. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing Source ID: 2086] notes: "C13 building; but a Norman font found nearby and now replaced in the church indicates that there was an ealier building on the site [...] In the S aisle to the left of the doorway is a Norman tub font; to the right a Victorian marble font (by Pritchard) with water lilies and passion flowers carved on the rim and netted fish below, the pedestal surrounded by green and red marble shafts."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and fonts
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 518112 5737652
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.78944, -2.7374
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 47′ 21.98″ N, 2° 44′ 14.64″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 174