Tregayan / Trêgayan / Tregaean / Tregaian / Trêfgîan / Trêfgaian
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B01: design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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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
Font ID: 12452TRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Caian, Trêgayan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Caian%27s_Church,_Tregaian
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Caian [aka Gaian]
Church Address: Llangefni LL77 7UW, United Kingdom
Site Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B5111, 4-5 km NW of Llangefni
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Anglesey
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Dictionary of 1849 notes: "the font is probably of the twelfth century, and belonged to an earlier church." Noted and illustrated in Thurlby (2006) who remarks on the similarity of the chevron band on this font and the one at Llaniestyn [NB: the chevron pattern on the Tregayan font side is fully nested, without any spaces in the angles]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=47887] [accessed 23 December 2006]
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p.227 and fig. 320