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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at the upper and lower ends

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inscription

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital image of an engraving by D. Marples, of Liverpool, on a drawing by E. Balter, in Hamer (1869)

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of font and cover - southeast side

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view of font and cover - southwest side

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view of font and cover - upper view

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font and cover in context - northeast side

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital image of an engraving by D. Marples, of Liverpool, on a drawing by [John] Parker, in Hamer (1869)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17045LLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Curig / Eglwys Dant Gurig

Church Patron Saints: St. Curig [aka Gurig]

Church Location: Llangurig, Llanidloes SY18 6SG, UK

Country Name: Wales

Location: Powys

Directions to Site: Located off the A44-A470 crossroads, 8 km SW of Llanidloes, 16 km NW of Rhayader, on the banks of the Wye river

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bangor

Historical Region: Hundred of Llanidlows -- formerly Montgomeryshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular

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The font here is noted and illustrated in Hamer (1869): "The font consists of an octagonal basin, measuring 1 foot 11 inches in diameter inside the bowl, and about a foot in depth, resting upon a short shaft which connects it with its base. Its total height is 3 feet 9 inches. The head of each compartment is filled with tracery (see Mr Parker's sketch in the view of the interior). Some ambitious Vandal has scratched his initials and the date 1661 upon it." Lloyd-Verney's monograph on this village (1892) gives some description of the church and contents before the restoration of 1878; on the font it notes: "The font is probably of late 14th century or early 15th century work [...] The font consists of an octagonal basin, measuring 1 foot 11 inches in diameter inside the bowl, and about a foot in depth, resting upon a short shaft which connects it with its base' Its total height is 3 feet 9 inches' The head of each compartment is filled with tracery. Some ambitious Vandal has scratched on it his initials and the date 1661, recording the period when the destruction of reverence for sacred things had made sacrilegious barbarism possible in the Church of God. [...] The architectural style of the following century is marked by the Font, which I conjecture to have been the gift of Gruffydd ab Howel Lloyd, who had augmented his property by his marriage with an heiress, an example followed by his son Ieuan (living in 1430), and his grandson, Jenkyn Goch, of Clochfaen." The RCAHM (Montgomery, 1911) gives a similar description and measurements. Noted in the CPAT Montgomeryshire Churches Survey Project: "There is a 19thC copy of the medieval rood screen and a medieval font, one of the few furnishings to survive the 19thC rebuilding. [...] During the 16thC, the font was removed from the church but replaced in 1660 and re-sited in the centre of the nave. An inscription inside the bowl probably records the first person to be baptised after it was re-sited." The entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/301591/details/st-curigs-church-llangurig] [accessed 19 January 2020] notes: "Llangurig Parish Church was reputedly founded by St. Curig, who died c.550, and is now dedicated to him. It has been claimed that in the twelfth century it became part of the abbey lands of Strata Florida, but the first solid record of its existence was in 1254. Much of the limestone rubble-built walling in evidence today dates from the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, though there has been extensive restoration. [...] The interior of the church is plastered and painted, with nineteenth century furnishings."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.4066, -3.606

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 24′ 23.76″ N, 3° 36′ 21.6″ W

UTM: 30U 458776 5806436

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (inside rim): 58.43 cm*

Basin Depth: 30.48 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 114.3 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * in ft/ins in Hamer & Lloyd-Verney [cf. FontNotes]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers

Inscription Notes: [added at a later date]

Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Text: [initials and date 1881]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, busily carved top with handle

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of the County of Montgomery, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1911

Hamer, Edward, "A parochial account of Llangurig", II (1869), Collections historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire, issued by the Powys-Land Club for the use of its members, 1869, pp. 225-300; r["References"]

Lloyd-Verney, George Hope [Colonel], A Description of the Parish Church of Llangurig, Montgomeryshire, North Wales, London: G. Pulman & Sons, 1892