Penmark / Pen-Marc

Described in Orrin (1988): "At the west end of the nave stands the 13th-century freestone font with circular bowl, cup-shaped with a damaged roll-moulding in the form of a single string. It has similar mouldings on the underside and the plinth is an elongated hexagon." [NB: Orrin (ibid.) notes a holy-water stoup "on the right-hand of the south doorway on entering the church [...] set into a recess in the south wall of the nave", but does not mention a date -- not listed separately in this Index]. Noted in Newman (1995) simply as "a C13 tub on a round shaft." Listed and illustrated in the CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=7176] [accessed 28 April 2025]: "The font stands at the west end of nave at the entrance to the west tower. The plain, lead-lined tub has a roll moulding on the rim. At four points around the rim, stone has been inserted with joints so fine that they are almost undetectable. There are holes for a clasp on the south-west side. A single roll moulding encircles the waist of the font and there are three unequal roll mouldings at the bottom of the tub. The font sits on a separate round pillar stem with roll mouldings at top and bottom, which stands in turn on a square chamfered base topped with a prominent roll moulding. The whole is placed on a large hexagonal plinth."