Llandyfriog / Llandevreog / Llandyvriog

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: "The present church [...] was constructed on a platform comprising spoil from its predecessor in 1888" [COFLEIN [cf. FontNotes]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dylan Moore, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2008 by Dylan Moore [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/828425] [accessed 12 January 2020]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 06051LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Briog / Sant Tyfrïog / Dyfriog
Church Patron Saints: St. Brieuc [aka Breock, Breoke, Briavel, Brieg, Brioc, Briog, Briuc, Tyfrïog, Tyvriog]
Church Location: Unnamed Rd, Llandyfriog, Newcastle Emlyn SA38 9HB, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Ceredigion
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A475, N of the A484, 2-3 km E of Newcastle Emlyn, 19-20 km ESE of Cardigan
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Davids
Historical Region: Hundred of Troedyraur -- formerly Cardiganshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: Late Medieval [altered]
Church Notes: church re-built 1890
Font Notes:
No mention of this church found in Meyrick. Tyrrell-Green (1928: 32) reports a baptismal font with a hexagonal basin in this church. Evans (1914) notes: "The ancient Font has been chiselled and renovated, and now rests disconsolately on a freestone base". The entry for this church in COFLEIN [www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/97057/details/st-briogs-churchst-dyfriogs-church-llandyfriog] [accessed 11 January 2020] notes: "The church was a parish church during the medieval period [...] The earlier church was similar in plan to the present church but consisted of nave and chancel only. The church was reportedly substantially rebuilt before 1860 at which time the chancel arch, windows and internal fittings were noted to be modern and there was a single bellcote on the nave's west wall. [...] The present church [...] was constructed on a platform comprising spoil from its predecessor in 1888"; no font mentioned.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.04329, -4.4326
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 2′ 35.84″ N, 4° 25′ 57.36″ W
UTM: 30U 401749 5766822

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

REFERENCES

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928