Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn / Lanfihangel Kilvireth / Llanfihangel Gelyndrod / Llanvihangel y Glyn Droed / Llanvihangel-y-Creuddyn / Llanvihangel-y-Creuthyn / Llavihangl-y-Creiddyn
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font in this church [the basin of the medieval font is still in the church, unused -- cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in Llefydd Llonydd / Lonely Places [https://peaceful-places.com/destination/llanfihangel-y-creuddyn] [accessed 17 January 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06204LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn, Aberystwyth SY23 4LA, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Ceredigion
Directions to Site: Located N of the B4340, S of the A44, about 10 km ESE of Aberystwyth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Davids
Historical Region: Hundred of Ilar -- formerly Cardiganshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes] [reported in 1914 and 1928 in the churchyard]
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Meyrick (1808) describes a cross-shaped church here but mentions no font in it. Evans (1914) writes: "The old Font, which has an octagonal bowl, now serves as a Flower Vase in the churchyard". Tyrrell-Green (1928: 40) reports an old baptismal font abandoned unused in the churchyard. The entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/105145/details/st-michaels-church-llanfihangel-y-creuddyn] [accessed 17 January 2020] notes: "According to local tradition, the church was constructed in 1268. The church is first mentioned in documents of the thirteenth century. It was then known as Lanfihangel Kilvireth and was a chapelry in the Deanery of Ultra-Aeron [...] The church is referrred to as Llanfihangel Gelyndrod on its chalice dating to 1751. [...] A small octagonal bowl lying loose in the church may be the medieval font bowl. [...] The church was restored in 1871 [...] The current octagonal, oolite font is nineteenth-twentieth-century in date. [...] The church was again renovated in 1989."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.3662,
-3.96212
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 21′ 58.32″ N,
3° 57′ 43.63″ W
UTM: 30U 434491 5802205
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Evans, J.T., The Church Plate of Cardiganshire, Stow-in-the-Wold: James H. Halden, 1914
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, The History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan [...], London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928