Rhossili / Rhos Sili / Rhosili / Rhosilly
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image and permission received from the autor (e-mail of 10 July 2019)
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: notice the chimeny on the saddle-type roof of the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nilfanion, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2013 by Nilfanion [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_Church,_Rhossili_(5352).jpg] [accessed 10 July 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Law, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 November 2011 by Richard Law [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2687658] [accessed 10 July 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the autor (e-mail of 10 July 2019)
view of church interior - chancel and east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the autor (e-mail of 10 July 2019)
view of church interior - communion salver?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - window
Scene Description: this window may be in memory of Edgar Evans, a native Rhossilian who died in the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole in 1911–1912
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Colin Smith
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view of font - southwest side
Scene Description: showing the damage to the rim, with a partial view of the new lining of the inner basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover - northweast side
Scene Description: in the southwest corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the autor (e-mail of 10 July 2019)
view of font and cover in context - southwest side
Scene Description: in the southwest corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the autor (e-mail of 20 July 2009)
view of font and cover in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the autor (e-mail of 10 July 2019)
INFORMATION
FontID: 12478RHO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [possibly dedicated earlier to St. Suliern or Sili]
Church Location: Rhossili, Swansea SA3 1PL, UK -- Tel.: +44 1792 390456
Country Name: Wales
Location: Swansea
Directions to Site: Located on the Gower peninsula, at the W end [literally, as the road ends there] of the B4247, across from Worms Head
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Swansea and Brecon
Historical Region: Cwmwd of Gwyr, Cantref of Eginog (now called the Hundred of Swansea) -- formerly Glamorgan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SW corner of the nave
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for the phtotographs of this church and font
Church Notes: an earlier church dedicated to St Sulien (?) that disappeared in the sand is said to have existed here in the 6th-7thC; the present church is said to date from ca. 1200; heavily restored in the 19thC
Font Notes:
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Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928), in the context of mostly square fonts of the Norman period decorated with scallop motif, as a "departure in detail from the usual type", this one "a very rudely executed font where the upper rim has a kind of inverted scalloping, with very poor and clumsy effect" [NB: there is no discernible "inverted scalloping" anywhere on the font; there is considerable damage to the upper rim on the west side of the basin; is this what Tyrrell-Green described? it is most likely the result of damage to the upper rim area where the old metal staples of the former cover had split the stone]. The present cover, a square platform with crocketed vertical ribs is modern; the east side of the basin shows plugs in it, probably the anchoring of the lock of an old cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.56917, -4.2857
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 34′ 9.01″ N, 4° 17′ 8.52″ W
UTM: 30U 410893 5713905
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928