Merthyr Dyfan / Merthyr Divan / Merthyr Dovan

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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12612MER
Church/Chapel: Parish Churchof St. Dyfan [and St. Teilo?]
Church Patron Saints: St. Dyfan [aka Dovan, Dovanus]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Directions to Site: Located near Barry, 13 km SW of Cardiff
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the south doorway
Date: ca. 1250?
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Early English
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