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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12488ABE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cynfil [aka St Cynwyl's]
Font Location in Church: [reported in the churchyard ca. 1928]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cynfil [aka Cynwyl]
Church Address: 51 Parc Y Plas, Aberporth, Cardigan SA43 2BJ, UK
Site Location: Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disused font? (replaced by a new one and moved to the churchyard in the 1850s)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 393966 5776682
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.13048, -4.5491
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 7′ 49.73″ N, 4° 32′ 56.76″ W
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, p. [1]-2
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 280
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 40