Llanfaglan / Llanvagdalen / Llanvaglan
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Allan Fryer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/961265] [accessed 12 September 2013]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Fryer, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Alan Fryer [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/961268] [accessed 27 November 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15744LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Baglan / Eglwys S Baglan [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Baglan
Church Location: Bontnewydd, Caernarfon, Gwynedd LL54 5RA
Country Name: Wales
Location: Gwynedd
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SW of Caernarfon, on the shore of the Menai Strait and Traeth y Foryd
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bangor
Historical Region: Hundred of Isgorval [aka Is-Gorfai] -- formerly in county Carnarvon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?
Church Notes: redundant church under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches; still consecrated; occasional use
Font Notes:
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Gray (2012) reports it as a heptagonal font and speculates "that it might at one time had been painted with th seven sacraments of the medieval Catholic church". Plain heptagonal basin raised on a stem of the same shape; all heavily whitewashed. The wooden cover is polygonal (heptagonal or octagonal) and flat, with metal decoration; appears modern, probably 18th or 19th century. The church is said to date from the 13th or 14th century; the font may well belong to the same period. This location had a well with waters said to have healing properties; there is still a font (?) carved in the rock near the location where the well once stood. The church is now [2009] under the care of The Friends of Friendless Churches [www.friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/churches/llanfaglan/llanfaglan.htm] [accessed 27 November 2009]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.120679, -4.309582
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 7′ 14.44″ N, 4° 18′ 34.49″ W
UTM: 30U 412361 5886496
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, gritstone
Font Shape: heptagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Gray, Madeleine, "Seven for the Seven Sides on the Font", 9 (March 2012), Newsletter (Fforwm Cerrig Cymru/Welsh Stone Forum), 2012, pp. 9-11; p. 9