Llangelynin / Llangelynnin
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05724LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Old Parish Church
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17739268
Site Location: Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the coast of Cardigan Bay, just north of Aber Dysyni, about 35 km north of Aberystwyth
Historical Region: formerly Caernarfonshire and/or Merionethshire
Font Notes:
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Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font in this church "certainly not older than the fourteenth century"; the same source mentions an ancient holy well in this same location. The Welsh Civic Trust web site [www.civictrustwales.org] dates it to the 14th century.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 9