Monmouth / Monemvde / Trefynwy

PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

Results: 8 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

view of basin and cover

Scene Description: the Victorian font

Image Source: digital photograph 3 August 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 August 2024)

view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph 3 August 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 August 2024)

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Priory Church, Monmouth"

Image Source: digital photograph 13 June 2011 by John Cummings [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_Priory_Church,_Monmouth_02.JPG] [accessed 18 August 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Scene Description: "Font apparently constructed of disparate medieval pieces" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 3 August 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 August 2024)

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ancient Font, St. Marys Priory Church, Monmouth, Gwent, Wales [...] Unusual old font, somewhat roughly shaped from solid rock."

Image Source: edited detail of a 2016 digital photograph by The Senior Crabbes in Waymark [https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMTCEB_Ancient_Font_St_Marys_Priory_Church_Monmouth_Gwent_Wales] [accessed 18 August 2024]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the Victorian font

Image Source: digital photograph 3 August 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 August 2024)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the Victorian font

Image Source: digital photograph 3 August 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 August 2024)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Priory Church, Monmouth"

Image Source: digital photograph 13 June 2011 by John Cummings [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_Priory_Church,_Monmouth_23.JPG] [accessed 18 August 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 25666MON

Church/Chapel: Priory Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Priory St, Monmouth NP25 3BR, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1600 712034

Country Name: Wales

Location: Monmouthshire, Gwent

Directions to Site: Located off the A466 [aka Hereford Rd], W of the A40, 25-30 km S of Hereford, about 40 km NE of Newport

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Cardiff

Historical Region: Hundred of Castle [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and fonts

Church Notes: church of a Benedictine priory founded late 11thC; priory dissolved 1536; restored 18th and 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Monmouth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO5012/monmouth/] [accessed 18 August 2024]; it reports "1 church. 2.0 church lands" in it. Baptismal font listed in CADW [https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=2784] [accessed 18 August 2024]: "Font apparently constructed of disparate medieval pieces." This is probably the font now re-purposed as a flower pot inside the church; it consists of a roughly round basin with bulging rib-like protrusions, much like a medieval grain measure, raised on a plain round pedestal base and a round-to-square lower base decorated on one side; it appears to be made of sandstone. Another font here, of Victorian design and decoration, is noted and illustrated in The Monmouth Marches Ministry Area [https://monmouthparishes.org/history/history-of-st-marys-priory-church-monmouth/] [accessed 18 August 2024]: "The Font of carved Portland stone and green Genoa marble was installed in the present position in 1982."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8132, -2.714

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 48′ 47.52″ N, 2° 42′ 50.4″ W

UTM: 30U 519716 5740301

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Number of Pieces: 3

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round