Bangor-is-y-Coed / Bangor Ysicoed / Bangor-on-Dee / Bangor Monachorum

INFORMATION

FontID: 04445BAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Dunawd
Church Patron Saints: St. Dunod [aka Deinoch, Dinodh, Dinooth, Dinuth, Dunawd]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Gwynedd
Directions to Site: Located in Flint, 8 km SE of Wrexham down the A525 (dir. Whitchurch)
Historical Region: Formerly Flintshire
Date: ca. 1500?
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
Described in Hubbard (1986) as "a disused octagonal bowl, with rudimentary roll moulds." [NB: the other font present in this church, a late Perpendicular piece, is more interesting but of a much later date, probably 19th century; it has a cover executed in 1935 by Evelyn Wybergh]. The Civic Trust Wales web site [www.civictrustwales.org] states that "the font is ca.1500".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Hubbard, Edward, Clwyd (Denbigshire and Flintshire), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1986