Llanaber
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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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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
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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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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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 - 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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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 - 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 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 - 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 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 - 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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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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12466LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Bodfan [aka St Mary's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bodvan [Bodfan, Bôdvan]
Church Notes: 13thC church; restored 1860s and 1960s; Lewis (1848) describes the church as "a spacious structure in the early style of English architecture"
Church Address: Llanaber, Barmouth LL42 1AZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1341 555550
Site Location: Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A496, 2 km NW of Barmouth, 17 km W of Dolgellau
Historical Region: formerly Merionethshire
Additional Comments: altered font? / composite font? (the basin and base appear to be of differemt periods)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 427340 5844069
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.7416, -4.0763
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 44′ 29.76″ N, 4° 4′ 34.68″ W
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, [transcribed in http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/MER/Llanaber/index.html [accessed 19 August 2009]]
- Jenkins, Simon, Wales: Churches, Houses, Castles, London: Allen Lane, 2008, p. 232
- 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=47841] [accessed 29 December 2006]