Hasguard / Huscard

INFORMATION

FontID: 17129HAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [closed in 1979]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 7-8 km WNW of Milford [Coordinates: 51° 44′ 35.9″ N, 5° 6′ 38.5″ W 51.743306, -5.110694 -- UTM 30U 354280 5734597]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
The RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925) record of their 16 September 1920 visit notes: "The church has been carefully restored, and the chancel entirely rebuilt. The original building probably dates from the last quarter of the 12th or first quarter of the 13th century [...] The font bowl is octagonal on a circular shaft; it is of the 14th century." The Hasguard entry by Mike Berrell in Steve Bulman's 'The Churches of Britain and Ireland' site [http://www.churches-uk-ireland.org/pembroke.html] notes: "the remains of St. Peter. Closed in 1979, the roof was later removed and the building managed as a "controlled ruin". SM 854 095. © Mike Berrell (2010)" [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the font; it may still be in the "controlled ruin"].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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