Gumfreston No. 2 / Gumfrestone

INFORMATION

FontID: 13225GUM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 2.5 km WNW of Tenby
Font Location in Church: In the porch, right-hand side of the doorway
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Mason (1856) writes: "At the west end of the nave is the only entrance into the church, under a porch of Early Perpendicular curves in its archway; and at the right-hand corner occurs the stoup for holy water, and octagonal font, let into the main wall of the church, and partly projecting into the porch". Mason's description is commented on in The Gentleman's Magazine (issue for July-Dec, 1856, p. 550): "We see no reason for calling a stoup a font; it is merely a plain stone basin let into the wall, and rather larger than usual: there is no ground to suppose there is a drain to it, or that it was ever used for baptismal purposes".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Mason, R., A Guide to the Town of Tenby and its Neighbourhood, Tenby: [s.n.], 1856