Llangefni / Llangevni
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R01: design element - motifs - sawtooth or zigzag?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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
FontID: 12462LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cyngar
Church Patron Saints: St. Cyngar of Llangefni
Country Name: Wales
Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd
Directions to Site: Located at the crossroads of the A5114-B5109-B5110-B5420, 14 km WNW of Bangor
Font Location in Church: In the west porch [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Anglesey Heritage web site [www.angleseyheritage.org.uk] reports a 12th-century font in the porch of St Cyngar's. Illustrated in Thurlby (2006), who suggests the chalice shape of this basin "is probably indicative of an advanced date in the twelfth century." [NB: the basin is in poor shape, its surface much eroded by exposure to the elements, but still permits to discern a zigzag or sawtooth motif all around the upper rim moulding -- legend has that a church on this site was founded by St. Cyngar himself in the 6th century. The RCAHMW (1937) reported no pre-17th-century items inside the church, and there is no font mentioned in the National Gazetteer of 1868 or in Lewis' Dictionary of 1833 -- would this basin be from an earlier [Norman?] building, or from a nearby church?]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006