Llandough-by-Cowbridge

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12592LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Dochau
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Dochdwy%27s_Church,_Llandough
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Dochow [aka Dochau, Dogwyn]
Site Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The church is within Llandough Castle
Font Notes:
Described in Orrin (1988): "The plain octagonal bowl and stem of the 14th-century font rests [sic] on a square base above a two-tier circular plinth with a projecting step. The underside of the bowl is chamfered to meet the stem where the only attempt at decoration is provided by triangular projections as exaggerated spurs on four of the sides." This same source mentions a circular holy-water stoup "in trhe recess in the south wall near the door" [NB: no date is mentioned in Orrin and we have not made a separate entry for this stoup in the Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988, p. 193