Llansannor / Llansanwyr / Llansannwr

INFORMATION

FontID: 04398LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Senwyr
Church Patron Saints: St. Senwyr
Country Name: Wales
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Directions to Site: Located about 3 km N of Cowbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Described in Newman (1995) as a "plain octagonal tub on a square base". Newman has the 14th century tentative dating followed by a question mark. [NB: Orrin (1988) does not mention the font but mentions a niche opposite the south door with a holy-water stoup in it, perhaps of 1674, the date carved on the niche]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Newman, John, Glamorgan (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1995
Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988