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view of church exterior - northwest view
view of church interior - looking northwest
view of church interior - piscina
INFORMATION
FontID: 17111LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Jerome [aka St. Hierom's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Jerome
Church Location: Llangwm, Haverfordwest SA62 4HX, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
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
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.747,
-4.912
Church 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
Lloyd, Thomas, Pembrokeshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006