Llanegryn
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design element - patterns - scalloped
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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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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thurlby, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph in Thurlby (2006)
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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 font
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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INFORMATION
FontID: 12467LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Egryn
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Egryn
Church Location: Llanegryn, Tywyn LL36 9SR, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Gwynedd
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Church Notes: church documented mid-13thC
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.6317, -4.0756
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 54.12″ N, 4° 4′ 32.16″ W
UTM: 30U 427204 5831845
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
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006