Llanfechell / Llanvechell
Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2010
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Results: 9 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2010 by Madeleine Gray [University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2010 by Madeleine Gray [University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 8 arches - columns with capitals
Scene Description: each side contains a pair of round arches framed in a thick moulded panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2010 by Madeleine Gray [University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2010 by Madeleine Gray [University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd]
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view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2010 by Madeleine Gray
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: one of the metal staples of the cover is visible in the spandrel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2010 by Madeleine Gray
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eric Jones, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2009 by Eric Jones [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1253749] [accessed 19 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eric Jones, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2009 by Eric Jones [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1253743] [accessed 19 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - moulding or piping
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madeleine Gray, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2010 by Madeleine Gray [University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12458LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mechell / Eglwys Mechell Sant
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mechell [aka Macutus, Mechyll]
Church Address: Crown Terrace, Llanfechell, Amlwch LL68 0PY, United Kingdom
Site Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A5025, 8 km WSW of Amlwch, 8 NW of Llanerchymedd, on the coast
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bangor
Historical Region: Hundred of Tal-y-Bolion
Additional Comments: altered font? Are the basin and base not originally matched?
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Thurlby (2006), with reference to the font at nearby Llanbadrig: "A simpler, square version of an arcaded font is at Llanfechell [...] with two arches on each side [...] Here the rough finish of the stone makes one think of the application of a thin film of plaster and paint and the possibility of figures painted beneath the arches, as on Romanesque fonts in the Rhineland." Each side contains a pair of connected round arches framed in a thick moulded panel.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Madeleine Gray, of the School of Education/Ysgol Addysg, University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd, for her photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 403339 5916974
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.393, -4.4536
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 23′ 34.8″ N, 4° 27′ 12.96″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, gritstone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak
Notes: ancient?
REFERENCES
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 225-226 and fig. 315