Llanvapley

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Results: 3 records
BBU01: design element - motifs - sawtooth
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 12390LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mapley
Church Patron Saints: St. Mapley [aka Vapley, Mable, Mabley, Mabel]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Monmouthshire
Directions to Site: Located on the B4233, 6 km E of Abergavenny, 16 km W of Monmouth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
An 1861 plan of the interior of this church [source: www.churchplansonline.org] show a font located in the west end of the nave, on the north side, opposite the south entrance. The font is described and illustrated in Thurlby (2006) [NB: the photographs of the fonts at Llanvapley and Llandewi Skirrid [figs. 246 & 247] appear to have been switched by mistake]. The font consists of a hemispherical basin plain but for a band of saw-tooth pattern on the upper basin side. The base, a central shaft with four atteched slender colonnettes, is, as suggested in Thurlby (ibid.), probably of a later date.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hemispheric - mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: appears flat, round and plain; probably modern
REFERENCES
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006