Llandeilo Tal-y-bont
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 3 December 2017)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 3 December 2017)
view of church interior - painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Cummings, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 November 2013 by John Cummings [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Fagans_National_History_Museum_108.JPG] [accessed 4 December 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Cummings, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 November 2013 by John Cummings [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Fagans_National_History_Museum_91.JPG] [accessed 4 December 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 3 December 2017)
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the south aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Cummings, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 November 2013 by John Cummings [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Fagans_National_History_Museum_100.JPG] [accessed 4 December 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - south aisle - looking west
Scene Description: with the font at the far end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lesbardd, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2011 by Lesbardd [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fagan271.JPG] [accessed 4 December 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Cummings, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 November 2013 by John Cummings [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Fagans_National_History_Museum_137.JPG] [accessed 4 December 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 3 December 2017)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21553TEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 15th century, Medieval
Museum: St Fagsn National Museum of History, Cardiff
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Teilo
Font Location in Church: Inside the transplanted church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Teilo [aka Elidius, Eliud, Eloi, Tello, Teilaw, Tellaw]
Church Notes: original 12th-13thC church; disused 1970; dismantled and moved to museum in Cardiff; open to the public 2007
Church Address: [cf. Directions field] [coordinates are given for the reconstuction site in Cardiff]
Site Location: West Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: originally located near Pontarddulais and Swansea; now re-built at St Fagans National History Museum in Cardiff, Wales, located off (E) de A4232, W of Cardiff
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a square basin with chamfered sides, raised on a pedestal of the same shape, the chamfers wider, making it almos octagonal; wooden cover carved and painted, square and flat; appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: W are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 480541 5704125
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat, with carved painted upper surface