Aberporth / Aber-porth

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: the mid-19thC re-building of a medieval church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anthony Parkes, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2016 by Anthony Parkes [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4881592] [accessed 4 January 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12488ABE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cynfil [aka St Cynwyl's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Cynfil [aka Cynwyl]
Church Location: 51 Parc Y Plas, Aberporth, Cardigan SA43 2BJ, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Ceredigion
Directions to Site: Located off the B4333, N of the A487, 10 km NE of Cardigan
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Davids
Historical Region: formerly Cardiganshire
Font Location in Church: [reported in the churchyard ca. 1928]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Evans (1914) reports that the old church described in Lewis' Dictionary as being "of great antiquity" was demolished in 1857 and the old font was discarded and replaced by a Victorian one; the old font, it adds, "has been recovered and placed in the churchyard to the left of the entrance-porch". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a font that stands "unused in the churchyard". Thurlby (2006) cites an earlier (1914) article by T-G in which the font appeared illustrated outside the porch. The entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/400323/details/st-cynwyls-church-aberporth] [accessed 4 January 2020] notes: "The church was a parish church during the medieval period [...] A font, with square bowl and cylindrical stem, is mounted in the churchyard adjacent to the porch is late medieval in date. [...] The [modern] font dates from the nineteenth century."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.13048, -4.5491
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 7′ 49.73″ N, 4° 32′ 56.76″ W
UTM: 30U 393966 5776682

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Evans, J.T., The Church Plate of Cardiganshire, Stow-in-the-Wold: James H. Halden, 1914
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928