Merthyr Dyfan / Merthyr Divan / Merthyr Dovan

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12612MER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1250?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Churchof St. Dyfan [and St. Teilo?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the south doorway
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17744123
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Dyfan [aka Dovan, Dovanus]
Site Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Barry, 13 km SW of Cardiff
Additional Comments: altered font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Described in Orrin (1988): "The 13th-century font near the south doorway has a plain cylindrical bowl with a single roll-moulding around the rim. The modern blocks which form the stem are chamfered on their upper edge to meet the flat underside of the bowl. It has an octagonal base set on a square plinth." The Church in Wales web site [www.churchinwales.org.uk], which gives the date of consecration of this church as 1250, notes that "the font was re-based" in 1970]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

  • Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988, p. 272