Llanmerewig / Llam erewig / Llam yr ewig

The RCAHM (Montgomery, 1911) notes: "On the ledge of the easternmost window on the south side is the bowl of a font, doubtless belonging to this church, which was discovered in the parish and removed hither in 1833. Internally it has a diameter of between 17 and 18 inches; externally the curve is broken at four equidistant points by heavy projections shaped as to two opposite sides like a solid handle, and as to the other two opposite sides with the same projections curved into the side of the font. It is an early water stoup. A font of similar shape and size is still in use at the parish church of Snead". Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a common type of early baptismal font having a bowl with "four equidistant projections giving the appearance of rude handles"; he mentions the fonts at Pennant Melangell and Snead in Montgomeryshire [now Powys] and the one at Chirbury in Hereford [now Shropshire], as being of the same type. [NB: the description of this object matches that of a medieval mortar or grain measure; Bond (1908) warned about the mistaken identity and use of these are fonts and stoups]