Overmonnow No. 2 / Monmouth / Over Monnow / Trefynwy

The original baptismal font of this church, which, according to Peter Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003, vol. 3: 70 fn45) was replaced by a more ornate font coming from the nearby Monmouth priory. Lord (ibid.) refers to Richard Colt Hoare's engraving of the interior at St. Thomas' that appeared in William Coxe's An Historical Tour of Monmouthshire (London, 1801) [ill. facing p. 299, vol. II]; in that illustration appears a font that is not the present font, but a plain one mounted on a simpler base. The original St. Thomas' font may have therefore disappeared since the 1835 restoration [cf. Index entry for Overmonnow No. 1 for the font now at St. Thomas']. A second font is mentioned in Handscome (1979 rev. 1992) [www.churchinwales.org.uk/monmouth/m543/6.html] [accessed 7 December 2006], but we have no information on whether this second font is the one in Coxe [cf. supra], or one that may have been moved into St Thomas' from the nearby Chapel of St Duellus, a small church that dated from 1186 and was bulldozed into a near well in 1956 during the building of the motorway tunnels [source: Handscome (ibid.)]. There is no mention of a second font in Thurlby (2006).