Lawrenny / Lawrenney

INFORMATION

FontID: 12405LAW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Caradoc
Church Patron Saints: St. Caradoc [aka Caradog]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NNE of Pembroke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: several other such cushion-capital fonts in Pembrokeshire
Font Notes:
Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) as a Norman font. In Thurlby (2006) as a baptismal font of the Norman period in the cushion-capital style

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
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
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006