Kenfig / Cynffig, St. Mary Magdalene, Maudlam / Mawdlam

Mentioned in Bond (1908) as a Norman font ornamented with "imbrications or shingle". Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period; its sides are totally covered in a diaper or scallop pattern, like scales on a fish; the upper rim side is decorated with a rope motif. It is raised on a rectangular plinth with "priest's stone". The flat wooden cover is probably modern. Described in Newman (1995) as "a fine C12 piece, tub-shaped, crisply carved with a scale pattern, a rope moulding at the top and a roll at the bottom. It may have been rescued from old Kenfig church." Described and illustrated in Thurlby (2006) as a baptismal font "decorated with imbrication (fish-scale pattern)". Thurlby (ibid.) further notes that the appearence of the imbrication motif on fonts "speaks clearly of the iconographic connection between death and resurrection and their simulation in Baptism"