Llanstinan / Llanstinian

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B01: design element - motifs - scallop

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 12445LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Justinian
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located off the A40, 4 km SW of Fishguard [Coordinates for the church: 51:57.9495N 4:58.7813W]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [altered?], Norman [altered]
Font Notes:
The RCAHMW (Pembrokeshire, 1925) reports: "The font basin is 21 1/2 inches square, 19 inches internal diameter, and 6 inches deep, and has a circular base ; it has been repaired with cement. It may date from the Norman period, but appears to have been altered.—Visited, 21st June, 1915." Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire". [NB: the church is documented since 1291]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 47.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 15 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 53.75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in the RCAHMW (Pembrokeshire, 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