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B01: cleric - bishop - head - wearing mitre - Bishop Skeffington of Bangor?

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Ion, 2007
Image Source: digtal image of a photograph by Richard Ion inhttp://www.ephotozine.com/u13266/gallery/63900#Comments [accessed 29 September 2007]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12463LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Late Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Gwynodl, Llangwnnadl
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Gwynhoydl%27s_Church,_Llangwnnadl
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Gwynodl
Church Address: Lôn yr Eglwys, Llangwnnadl, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1758 720707
Site Location: Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4417, 20 km WSW of Pwllheli, on the Lleyn Heritage Coast
Historical Region: formerly Caernarfonshire and/or Merionethshire
Font Notes:
Noted in Lewis' Dictionary edition of 1849 as a sculptured font [NB: Lewis (ibid.) cites the April 1848 issue of Archaeologia Cambrensis as having "An account of this church, with some illustrations" -- to be checked]. Noted in the National Gazetteer of 1868 as a "sculptured font". Noted and llustrated in the Penllyn.com web site [http://www.penllyn.com/1/gallery/llangwnnadl/1.html] [accessed 29 September 2007]: "The font is interestingly carved, its sides bear respectively a fleur-de lys, a rose of five petals, a shield bearing a cross and a crowned head and mitred head. The latter are significant as the crowned head is an attempt to resemble King Henry VIII and the mitred head is that of Bishop Skeffington of Bangor, who took a keen interest in church buildings and could well have been connected with some of the renovating here in the 16th Century = Mae'r bedyddfaen wedi ei cherfio'n ddiddorol, ar ei ochrau math o fleur-de lys, rhosyn â phum petal, tarian â chroes arni gyda pen wedi ei goroni a phen meitrog. Mae'r pennau yma'r arwyddocaol gan fod y pen wedi ei goroni yn ymdrech i ymdebygu'r brenin Harri VIII, ac mai pen Esgob Skeffington Bangor yw'r llall. Dyma wr oedd yn diddori yn fawr mewn adeiladau eglwysi, ac a allai'n hawdd fod yn gysylltiedig â pheth o'r adnewyddu yma yn y G16". In Rees (2003). Noted in Jenkins (2008).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

  • The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/CAE/Llangwnadle/index.html] [accessed 29 September 2007]
  • Jenkins, Simon, Wales: Churches, Houses, Castles, London: Allen Lane, 2008, p. 238
  • 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=47852] [accessed 28 December 2006]
  • Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003, p. 117