Llandough-by-Cowbridge

INFORMATION

FontID: 12592LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Dochau
Church Patron Saints: St. Dochow [aka Dochau, Dogwyn]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Directions to Site: The church is within Llandough Castle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
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