Freystrop

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BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12442FRE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Church Patron Saints: [dedication unknown - St. Justinian?]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located off the A40t6, 4 km SSE of Haverfordwest
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [altered font?], Norman [altered]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
The RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) notes: "The church in 1874, was for the most par t rebuilt on the earlier foundations [...] The font is of the cushioned-capital type, 22 1/2 by 22 inches externally, the basin circular, 16 inches in diameter, total height 24 inches. It is supported on a stout central pillar, with shafts having circular bases of later date at each corner." Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) on a list of mostly Welsh fonts consisting of a square basin decorated with scallop motif (includes one from Bristol St Philip's and another from Thornbury, Gloucs., both bordering with Wales). Also in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 40 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 60 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 55 x 56.25 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925)]

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
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928