Llantrisant nr. Cardiff / Llantrisaint / Llantrissant

Described in Newman (1995) as "an exceptional piece, octagonal, each face bearing a large disc enclosing chip-carved stars" and dates it to the 15th century, like the fonts at Llanharry and Pyle. Thurlby (2006) writes: "the font was not replaced with the rebuilding [i.e., by J. Pritchard between 1872 and 1874]. It is octagonal and each face is decorated with a roundel with chip-carved ornament. Newman [cf. supra] related the font to those at Llanharry and Pyle and dated them to the fifteenth century [...] While the affiliations are convincing, the chip carving is more at home in the twelfth, rather than the fifteenth century. This was the view expressed by J. Romilly Allen, although the octagonal form of the font led him to attribute it to the thirteenth century [...] However, the Norman font at Mears Ashby (Northants.) provides a good analogue for the octagonal form and the decorated roundels at Llantrisant".