Llanrothal No. 1

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Lottie on 15 June 2008; in FLICKR [http://www.flickr.com/photos/22880625@N02/2584965776/in/set-72157605645047412/] [accessed 13 July 2008]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - interior - detail

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph in Britain Express [http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/hereford/churches/Llanrothal/index.htm] [accessed 13 July 2008]

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: notice the button-like cross in the usual place where the drain of a font would be

Image Source: digital photograph in Britain Express [http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/hereford/churches/Llanrothal/index.htm] [accessed 13 July 2008]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: the church shows a short stump of the bellfry it still had in the early-20thC at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2012 by Martinevans123 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.JohntheBaptistLlanrothal01.JPG] [accessed 26 January 2020]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the 'object' partially visible at the far end, right [north] side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2012 by Martinevans123 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.JohntheBaptistLlanrothal09.JPG] [accessed 26 January 2020]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph in Britain Express [http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/hereford/churches/Llanrothal/index.htm] [accessed 13 July 2008]

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view of object

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph in Britain Express [http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/hereford/churches/Llanrothal/index.htm] [accessed 13 July 2008]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of object in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2012 by Martinevans123 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.JohntheBaptistLlanrothal10.JPG] [accessed 26 January 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13599LLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist [originally St Ridol / Rhyddol?]

Church Location: Llanrothal, Monmouth NP25 5QL, UK -- Tel.: +44 117 929 1766

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A466, 8 km NNW of Monmouth, bnear the border with Wales, 22 km S of Hereford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford

Historical Region: Hundred of Wormelow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com], for the photographs of church and font

Church Notes: the dedication may have changed ca. 1200 from St Ridol / Rhyddol to St John the Baptist -- redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Llanrothal in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire (vol. 1, South west, London, HMSO, 1931, pp. 171-173) notes: "Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [...] The N. wall of the Nave dates from the 12th century, but the rest of the building, including the Chancel, was re-built in the following century, probably on a larger scale. The South Porch was added probably in the 16th century. The bell-turret was added or re-built in 1680. The church was restored in 1921 [...] Stoup: In S. porch, semi-octagonal with tapering stem and round basin, 16th-century"; it mentions no font in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO4706618589] notes: "Former parish church, now partly roofless. C12 north wall to nave, remainder C13 with chancel and former north vestry restored C20"; no font mentioned in it. An object here is usually described as a baptismal font, but given its early date (12th-century Norman?) it would make more sense as a holy-water stoup, an argument reinforced by the presence of the raised cross on the usual position of the drain-hole [cf. infra]. The object consists of a small bucket-shaped basin raised on a moulded cylindrical pedestal base, a moulded circular lower base and a narrow octagonal plinth. Ross [www.britainexpress.com/counties/hereford/churches/Llanrothal/index.htm] [accessed 13 July 2008] illustrates the font and notes: ''The intriguing thing about the font is not the date, however, or the absence of decorative elements. It is, rather, the presence of a small, raised 'cross pattee' at the centre of the bowl […]. The cross pattee sits on a small, raised plug of carved stone, not unlike the drain plug of a modern bathtub.'' It should also be noted that the size of this basin and its shallow inner well are further arguments against identifying this object with a baptismal font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.862599, -2.763799

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 51′ 45″ N, 2° 45′ 50″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round