Jordanston / Trefwrdan

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BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12443JOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cwrda
Church Patron Saints: St. Cwrda
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW of Fishguard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) [NB: this source lists the font as "circular"]. Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) in the context of a long list of square Norman basins with scalloped lower ends: "In some cases a round bowl is similarly scalloped, as at Jordanston (Pem.) and Shereford (Norfolk), in which latter example there is a double row of scallops." In Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

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