Llangwm / Langwm / Langum
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2919 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6279480] [accessed 24 January 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2919 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6279474] [accessed 24 January 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - looking northwest
Scene Description: view from the chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2919 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6279499] [accessed 24 January 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - piscina
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2919 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6279507] [accessed 24 January 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17111LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Jerome [aka St. Hierom's]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Jerome%27s_Church,_Llangwm
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Jerome
Church Address: Llangwm, Haverfordwest SA62 4HX, UK
Site Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SSE from Haverfordwest, 9 km N of Pembroke, in Pembrokeshire's National Park [NB: not to be mistaken with another Llangwm with a church dedicated to St. Jermoe in Monmouthshire]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Davids
Historical Region: Hundred of Rhos
Additional Comments: altered font? (basin reported as scalloped in 1856 [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) as a Norman font. Described in Lloyd (2001): "Font. Square Norman bowl, chamfered to circular pedestal." Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire". The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300011998-church-of-saint-jerome-llangwm] [accessed 24 January 2020] notes: "Anglican parish church of St Jerome or St Hierom, medieval, heavily remodelled in C19 but retaining in N transept important remnants [...] C13-14. [...] medieval font, square, splayed below to large round stem, on C19 base (font is described as scallopped in 1856)." The Llangwm Villages web site [http://www.llangwm-villages.org.uk/llangwm_churches.html] notes: "The limestone font has a plain square bowl and a cylindrical base and probably dates back to the 13th century." The brief entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/400362/details/st-jeromes-church-llangwm] [accessed 24 January 2020] illustrates an interesting piscina in it but mentions no font. The Llangwm Pembrokeshire web site [http://www.llangwm-pembrokeshire.org.uk/llangwm_stjeromes.html] [accessed 23 January 2020] notes: "the limestone font which has a plain square bowl and a cylindrical base and dates back to the 12th century."
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.747, -4.912
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 44′ 49.2″ N, 4° 54′ 43.2″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
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 Pembroke, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1925, no. 367
- Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 253
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 188