Llanddew No. 1
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Results: 16 records
B01: animal - reptile - snake?
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark E. Vincent, 2007
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view of basin
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view of basin - detail
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © R.F. Vincent & M.E. Vincent (2003-2006)
Image Source: original by Rev. H. Longueville Jones, reproduced by R.F. & M.E. Vincent's web page, 2003-2006 [www.freewebs.com/llanddew/churchofstdavid.htm#glynne] [accessed 17 December 2006
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view of church exterior
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view of font
Scene Description: as it must have looked before the Victorian alterations
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Image Source: original by Rev. H. Longueville Jones, reproduced by R.F. & M.E. Vincent's web page, 2003-2006 [www.freewebs.com/llanddew/churchofstdavid.htm#glynne] [accessed 17 December 2006]
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view of font
Scene Description: the font in 2006
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view of font
Scene Description: on the left the font as it probably was in the mid-19th century; on the right, the font ca. 2006
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark E. Vincent, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark E. Vincent, 2007 [www.freewebs.com/llanddew/churchofstdavid.htm#glynne]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark E. Vincent, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark E. Vincent, 2007 [www.freewebs.com/llanddew/churchofstdavid.htm#glynne]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark E. Vincent, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark E. Vincent, 2007 [www.freewebs.com/llanddew/churchofstdavid.htm#glynne]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 6 March 2007)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark E. Vincent, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark E. Vincent, 2007 [www.freewebs.com/llanddew/churchofstdavid.htm#glynne]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark E. Vincent, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark E. Vincent, 2007 [www.freewebs.com/llanddew/churchofstdavid.htm#glynne]
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © StayinWales.co.uk, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in StayinWales site [www.stayinwales.co.uk/wales_picture.cfm?p=2376] [accessed 11 December 2006]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12389LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. David
Church Patron Saints: St. David [aka David of Wales, Davidus, Dewy]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Powys
Directions to Site: Located off the B4602, just N of Brecon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave, just W of the entrance
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] -- [19th century [lower base only] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Reginald F. Vincent & Mark E. Vincent, of www.freewebs.com/llanddew/churchofstdavid.htm#glynne, for the information on, and photographs of the Llanddew St David's baptismal objects.
Font Notes:
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Glynne's notes published in 1860 record the presence of the font but in a different location of the interior: "The font is now in the chancel, and apparently never used. It has a large circular bowl on a quadrangular stem, with angles chamfered, and no base". A mid-19th century print of the font, attributed to H. Longueville Jones shows the font exactly as described in Glynne, which dates the lower base [and plinth?] to later in the 1800s [Glynne's notes, print, etc. are reproduced in Reginald F. Vincent & Mark E. Vincent [www.freewebs.com/llanddew/churchofstdavid.htm#glynne] [accessed 17 December 2006]]. Noted and illustrated in Thurlby (2006) as the basin of an early font related to those at Llantilio Crossenny, Bredwardine and Kilpeck but, "unlike the plain bowls of the related fonts, Llandew [sic] has a serpent incised in its western quadrant". The font is noted and illustrated in the StayinWales site [www.stayinwales.co.uk/wales_picture.cfm?p=2376] [accessed 11 December 2006]: "large lead lined stone bowl dating from mediaeval times, with an octagonal stem and a nineteenth century base" [cf. supra]. [NB: discerning the incised serpent noted above is like reading identifiable shapes in a cloud; even if the incissions could represent a serpent, are they original?]. [We are grateful to Reginald F. Vincent & Mark E. Vincent, of www.freewebs.com/llanddew/churchofstdavid.htm#glynne, for the information on, and photographs of the Llanddew St David's baptismal objects]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Diameter (includes rim): 92.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [given in Thurlby (2006) as "3ft 1in in external diameter"]
REFERENCES
Glynne, Stephen Richard, "Notes on the older churches in the four Welsh dioceses", [15] (1885); 17 (1900), Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1860, pp. vol.15: 33-48; 120-131;208-219; vol. 17nos.65-66: 85, 169, 311; [www.freewebs.com/llanddew/churchofstdavid.htm#glynne] [accessed 17 December 2006]
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006