Welsh St. Donats No. 3 / Welsh St. Donat's / Llanddunwyd

INFORMATION

FontID: 12745DON
Object Type: Stoup (fragment)?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Donat
Church Patron Saints: St. Donats] [aka Dunwyd]
Church Location: Welsh St Donats, The Vale of Glamorgan CF71 7SW
Country Name: Wales
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Directions to Site: Located about 4 km NE of Cowbridge, 8 km SSW of Llantrissant, in S Glamorgan
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Llandaff
Historical Region: Hundred of Cowbridge -- formerly in the parish of Llanblethian
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
Noted in Orrin (1988): "The south porch [...] on the floor just inside the doorway is placed what appears to be part of a large 15th-century octagonal pillar stoup which was recently discovered in the purlieus of the churchyard."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.477276, -3.401293
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 28′ 38.2″ N, 3° 24′ 4.66″ W
UTM: 30U 472131 5702978

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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