Llanegryn
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in the RCAHM's An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VI. County of Merioneth, (London: HMSO, 1921) illustrates (fig. 22)
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design element - patterns - scalloped
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in the RCAHM's An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VI. County of Merioneth, (London: HMSO, 1921) illustrates (fig. 22)
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Graveyard and church, Llanegryn. Tucked in on the hillside above the village."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nigel Brown, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2010 by Nigel Brown [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2128061] [accessed 26 December 2019]
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view of basin
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
Font ID: 12467LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Egryn, Llanegryn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Egryn
Church Notes: church documented mid-13thC
Church Address: Llanegryn, Tywyn LL36 9SR, UK
Site Location: Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the A493, 6 km NE of Tywyn, 27 km SW of Dolgellau, in the Snowdonia National Park
Historical Region: formerly Merionethshire
Font Notes:
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This font is not mentioned in Lewis' Dictionary of 1833 but the National Gazetteer of 1868 reports "a curious Norman font" in Llanegryn. 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. 22) the font here. Noted and illustrated in Thurlby (2006): "at Llanegryn scallops are applied to a round bowl". The basin is rather strange-looking, with an almost round section but otherwise squared, as if trimmed; raised on a plain round pedestal; the cover appears old and has the locking hardware still on.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 427204 5831845
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.6317, -4.0756
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 37′ 54.12″ N, 4° 4′ 32.16″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/MER/Llanegryn/index.html] [accessed 30 December 2006]
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 260 and fig. 378