Trellech No. 2 / Trelech / Treleck / Trelleck / Tryleg
Results: 3 records
INFORMATION
Font ID: 22578TRE
Object Type: Stoup?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Trelleck, Monmouth NP25 4PZ, UK
Site Location: Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4293, 7-8 km S of Monmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Monmouth
Additional Comments: disused stoup? (now in a lapidarium inside the church tower)
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in CADW [http://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=2106] [accessed 8 February 2020] notes: "With the exception of the south porch the church appears to be of one build, probably of the early C14, and is almost all in a simplified Decorated style [...] The church had a major restoration in 1893, with changes in 1903, and another restoration in 1992 [...] There are two fonts, one free-standing and early medieval, the other recut and later." [NB: the re-cut font is listed in BSI as Trellech No. 1 -- the one described as "free-standing and earlier" probably reders to an object in the little lapidarium kep beneath the tower of this church; it is a square basin of a medieval design that is applied to a few fonts, stoups and domestic containers such as grain measures and the like; This particular one, given the shape and depth of the basin interior, may have been a holy-water stoup (or used as one). The Trelleck web site [www.lioninn.co.uk/About_Trelleck] reports the present of a Saxon font in the churchyard to the south of the church [NB: this, again, may be a reference to the object noted above].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 518986 5732813
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.7459, -2.725
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 44′ 45.24″ N, 2° 43′ 30″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining