Llanddewi Skirrid / Llanddewi Sgyryd / Llanthewi Skirrid
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R01: design element - motifs - zigzag
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 12391LLA
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: Monmouthshire
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NE of Abergavenny
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: the zigzag on the rim similar to the one on the upper rim of the font at Llantilio Crossenny, in the same area
Font Notes:
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The Parish web site [www.llanddewiskirrid.co.uk] notes: "The old font, of some antiquity, stands at the back of the church by its Victorian counterpart." 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 at Llanddewi Skirrid consists of a bucket-shaped basin plain but for a zigzag (chevron?) pattern incised around the upper surface of the upper rim. Thurlby (ibid.) notes the presence on the basin surfaces of "considerable amounts of limewash and even distinct traces of paint: yellow ochre on the lip, and red ochre patterning on a white ground below". The squat base is octagonal.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: not lined
REFERENCES
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006