Pendine / Pentywynn

Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one of a few examples of heptagonal baptismal font: "There is a drawback attaching to a figure with an uneven number of sides, in that the whole turns to appear off the centre when seen from certain points of view, and this blemish no doubt accounts for the fact that a heptagonal form was seldom adopted for the form". Tyrrell-Green (ibid.) includes it in a list of mostly Welsh fonts consisting of a square [!] basin decorated with scallop motif (includes one from Bristol St Philip's and another from Thornbury, Gloucs., both bordering with Wales). T-G (ibid.) lists the fonts at Llanilar and Tregaron, in Cardiganshire, as heptagonal as well. The bottom of the basin sides are ornamented with a scalloped motif [NB: Tyrrell-Green lists this basin as heptagonal [p. 32] but later [p. 86] includes it in a list of Welsh square fonts of the Norman period ornamented with scallop motif around the lower sides]. Baker-Jones (1970) notes: ''At Pendine the font is seven sided and may originally have represented the Seven Virtues or the Seven Sacraments.''