Overmonnow No. 3 / Monmouth / Over Monnow / Trefynwy
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 10 August 2024)
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Scene Description: showing the 15thC basin; the font cover and the base are modern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 3 August 2023 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 10 August 2024)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 25646OVE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin only], Late Medieval [basin only]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Thomas / Eglwys Sant Tomos y Merthyr, Trefynwy
Font Location in Church: Inside
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas a Becket]
Church Notes: church documented 1186, in the Bull of Pope Urban III
Church Address: St Thomas's Square, Monmouth NP25 5ES, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1600 713955
Site Location: Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4293, W of the A40, across the river from Monmouth
Additional Comments: altered font (base is modern replacement)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of stone consisting of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides raised on a modern pedestal base with two step lower base, all octagonal. The wooden font cover is octagonal, flat and plain; modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefuk to Colin Smith for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 519276 5739774
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.808483, -2.720408
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 48′ 30.54″ N, 2° 43′ 13.47″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]