Llanbadarn Fawr nr. Aberystwyth / Llanbadarn Vawr / Llanbadarnfawr

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16

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view of church exterior - south porch and portal

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: some local sources suggest the arch may have been originally at Strata Florida

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view of church exterior - south portal - archivolt

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view of church exterior - south portal - east side - detail

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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view of font in context

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Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1860 print by Day & Haghan, lithographers to the Queen, in Casgliad Tirlun Cymru = Welsh Landscape Collection, National Library of Wales [cat. no.: vtls003372852] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_porch_and_entrance_to_Llanbadarn_Fawr_church._Through_doorway_it_shows_priest_adminstrating_holy_baptism_at_the_font_1860.jpg] [accessed 9 January 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17178LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St Padarn
Church Patron Saints: St. Paternus of Avranches [aka Padarn, Padarnus / Pair]
Church Location: 1 Heol-Y-Llan, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth SY23 3QZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1970 624638
Country Name: Wales
Location: Ceredigion
Directions to Site: Located near the junction of Primrose Hill and the A44, just E of Aberystwyth [Not to be mistaken with its homonym in Radnorshire/Powys]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. David's
Historical Region: formerly Cardiganshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, centre aisle
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross, of www.britainexpress.com, for the photograph of this font
Church Notes: original church probably 6thC; later a Benedictine priory and later still a royal rectory; became parish church at the Dissolution -- early cross and pillar with figures
Noted in Kelly's Directory of South Wales (1895): "the font dates from the 12th century, and has an octagonal arcaded basin". The entry for this church in Evans (1914) notes: "Happily the ancient Font remains; it now contains a blue and white earthenware Bason". Illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1914). Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin of the common Purbeck-marble type, with slightly tapering sides decorated with pairs of pointed arches, raised on a broad octagonal pedestal base and a wider lower base of the same shape; the basin is probably from the 13th century; the rest of the font appears to be a reconstruction. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.409, -4.061
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 24′ 32.4″ N, 4° 3′ 39.6″ W
UTM: 30U 427828 5807059

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble?)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern -- Victorian?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Evans, J.T., The Church Plate of Cardiganshire, Stow-in-the-Wold: James H. Halden, 1914
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of South Wales, [London]: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1895
Tyrrell-Green, E., "Cardiganshire fonts", 1, 4, Transactions of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society and Archaeological Record, 1914, pp. 9-26; r["References"]