Llanaber

Image copyright © Helge Klaus Rieder, 2009

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helge Klaus Rieder, 2009

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Helge Klaus Rieder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.MaryAndBodfanBarmouth4.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2019]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the base may not be matched to the basin and belong to a different period

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helge Klaus Rieder, 2009

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Helge Klaus Rieder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.MaryAndBodfanBarmouth4.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2019]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle

Scene Description: seen here in the right panel, and present in another five of the eight panels

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helge Klaus Rieder, 2009

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Helge Klaus Rieder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.MaryAndBodfanBarmouth4.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2019]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil or trefoil

Scene Description: much eroded on the sides of the underbowl chamfer

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helge Klaus Rieder, 2009

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Helge Klaus Rieder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.MaryAndBodfanBarmouth4.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2019]

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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - head?

Scene Description: seen here in the left panel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helge Klaus Rieder, 2009

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Helge Klaus Rieder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.MaryAndBodfanBarmouth4.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2019]

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view of church exterior - south porch and portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dorothea Witter-Rieder, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Dorothea Witter-Rieder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.MaryAndBodfanBarmouth12.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2019]

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view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Capitals of engaged columns at SS Mary and Bodfan parish church, Llanaber, Barmouth, Wales"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dorothea Witter-Rieder, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Dorothea Witter-Rieder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.MaryAndBodfanBarmouth14.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pjposullivan, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2011 by Pjposullivan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_and_St_Bodfan_Church,_Llanaber_south_side.JPG] [accessed 26 December 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dorothea Witter-Rieder, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Dorothea Witter-Rieder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.MaryAndBodfanBarmouth11.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel arch and east end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dorothea Witter-Rieder, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Dorothea Witter-Rieder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.MaryAndBodfanBarmouth9.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pjposullivan, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2011 by Pjposullivan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_and_St_Bodfan_Church,_Llanaber_interior.JPG] [accessed 26 December 2019]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the RCAHM's An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VI. County of Merioneth, (London: HMSO, 1921) illustrates (fig. 25)

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view of font and cover - east side

Scene Description: "C15 octagonal stone font with blind quatrefoil panels and one foliate and one figurative panel; plain octagonal column and moulded base." [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300004906-parish-church-of-saint-mary-and-saint-bodfan-barmouth] [accessed 26 December 2019]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helge Klaus Rieder, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Helge Klaus Rieder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.MaryAndBodfanBarmouth4.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12466LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Bodfan [aka St Mary's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Bodvan [Bodfan, Bôdvan]
Church Location: Llanaber, Barmouth LL42 1AZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1341 555550
Country Name: Wales
Location: Gwynedd
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A496, 2 km NW of Barmouth, 17 km W of Dolgellau
Historical Region: formerly Merionethshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: 13thC church; restored 1860s and 1960s; Lewis (1848) describes the church as "a spacious structure in the early style of English architecture"
Lewis' Dictionary edition of 1848 notes an "ancient font of elegant design" in Llanaber St Bôdvan's. The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports "an ancient font" in this church. The entry in the RCAHM's An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VI. County of Merioneth, (London: HMSO, 1921) illustrates (fig. 25) the font here. Jenkins (2008) notes an "eight-sided" font at the back of the nave. The entry for this church in CADW [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300004906-parish-church-of-saint-mary-and-saint-bodfan-barmouth] [accessed 26 December 2019] notes: "The site was established for christian worship already in the 6th century by St. Bodfan. The present structure is early C13, and in transitional/Early English style, though the chancel is a remodelling of an earlier one [...] C15 octagonal stone font with blind quatrefoil panels and one foliate and one figurative panel; plain octagonal column and moulded base."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.7416, -4.0763
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 29.76″ N, 4° 4′ 34.68″ W
UTM: 30U 427340 5844069

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration; modern

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
Jenkins, Simon, Wales: Churches, Houses, Castles, London: Allen Lane, 2008
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