Haroldston West / West Harroldstone / Haroldstone / Harroldston
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: all around the lower end of the basin sides
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view of church exterior in context - north view
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2019 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6272692] [accessed 12 February 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17128HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Madoc of Ferns / St. Madog [aka St. Aidan]
Church Patron Saints: St. Máedóc of Ferns [aka Madog] [also / or: St. Aidan?]
Church Location: Haroldston West, Haverfordwest SA62 3NB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1437 781809
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located near Haroldston East, 1.5 km N of Broad Haven, 9 km W of Haverfordwest
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Davids
Historical Region: Hundred of Rhos [aka Roose]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the the W end of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: many such fonts in this area: Rudbaxton, Haroldston West, Lambston, Prendergast, Johnston, Brawdy and Spittal, are similar and in the immediate vecinity
Church Notes: Norman church re-built late-19thC
Font Notes:
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No individual entry for Haroldston in the Domesday survey. The RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) notes: "This church has been entirely rebuilt on the old foundations [...] No ancient features were retained except the font, which is of the usual cushion type. Ih e bowl (24 inches square outside, 19 inches square inside) slopes off to a circular shaft on a square base; the whole has a height of 35 inches. The bowl shows signs of a cover." Described in Lloyd et al. (2001): "Norman square bowl, scalloped underneath." The Carmarthenshire Family History Society web site [http://CarmarthenshireFHS.co.uk] mentions the fonts at Rudbaxton, Haroldston West, Lambston, Prendergast, Johnston, Brawdy, Camrose and Spittal, as similar and in the immediate vecinity. Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.798421, -5.095081
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 47′ 54.32″ N, 5° 5′ 42.29″ W
UTM: 30U 355534 5740694
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 48.26 x 48.26 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 87.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 73.66 x 73.66 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) [cf. FontNotes]]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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