St. Bride's Major / Saint-y-Brid

Described in Orrin (1988): "The font has a plain octagonal bowl with a moulded rim and again just before the underside the bowl is angled out to meet yet another plain moulding and flat collar at the top of the octagonal stem. Stool stops break the octagon into a square base." Dated in Newman (1995) to the Perpendicular period. A 13 August 2007 photograph of this font by John Salmon can be found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Bridget,_St_Bride's_Major,_Glamorgan,_Wales_-_Font_-_geograph.org.uk_-_544551.jpg [accessed 28 April 2025]. There is also a 'redundant font' in this church, a much older tub-shaped circular tapering basin decorated with a large Maltese cross in a circle, apparently of the Romanesque period [see photograph of the same date by the same author [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Bridget,_St_Bride's_Major,_Glamorgan,_Wales_-_Redundant_font_-_geograph.org.uk_-_544556.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2025] [NB: the church here is documented in 1141, so it is quite possible that this basin may have been its baptismal font].