Mwnt / Mount / Moel y Mownt / Moel-y-Mwnt / Mynt

Meyrick (1808) mention the church here but not the font. Kelly's Directory (South Wales, 1895) reports "an ancient granite font" in this church. Evans (1914) writes: "With the exception of the Font, every movable thing which was medieval has disappeared from this lonely and hardly accessible little white-washed church by the sea." Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) on 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). Listed in Lord (2003) as one of about twenty square fonts produced by a north-Devon workshop [NB: Lord cites Robert Boak's unpublished research as source for the workshop identification]. The decoration of these fonts consists chiefly of scallop and/or foliage motifs. The font at Mwnt is listed as one of three "of the triple scalloped type" [the other two mentioned are Llanfihangel Ystrad and Sarnau, also not far from Cardigan]. The Civic Trust Wales site [www.civictrustwales.org] describes the material of the font as "porphyritic stone found in the Preselli hills". This must be the font referred to as 'Mynt' in Thurlby (2006): "square with three scallops on each side supported on a stem" and very similar to those at Tremain and Sarnau, both nearby. The font consists of a square basin with said scalloped lower sides, raised on a plain cylindrical stem and a sqaure lower base. Square wooden font cover; appears modern. The whole is raised on a two-step rather scruffy plinth. The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300015874-church-of-the-holy-cross-y-ferwig] [accessed 19 January 2020] notes: "Single chamber C13 church with W bellcote [...] Grey stone C13 font, rectangular basin scalloped with darts and short round shaft on plain square base." The entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/301815/details/holy-cross-church-mwnt] [accessed 19 January 2020] notes: " It is thought that the south-west quarter of the church may be constructed over a bronze age round barrow. In the medieval period the church belonged to the Deanery of Sub-Aeron.[...] In 1833 the church was a parish church, [...] The square, scalloped font bowl with cylindrical stem and squared base, dates to the twelfth century."