Llangwm Uchaf / Gwarthaf Cwm / Llan Cumm / Llan-Gwm Uchaf / Upper Llangwm / Warthacwm

Described and illustrated in D.R.T. (1877) reports a recent restoration in this church and: "During the progress of the work there was found in the walling the curious Saxon pillar with interlaced ornamentation, of which an illustration is given from the pencil of Mr. Worthington Smith. This pillar probably formed the pedestal of a stoup or a piscina in an earlier edifice than the one now existing." Jenkins (2008) mentions an object of interest in the church: "Near the door is an inexplicable object, obviously of great antiquity with trellis work round its middle. It may be a stoup, a standing lamp or pillar piscina." [NB: this object that has been identified at times as a holy-water stoup was found in this church; its identification is much debated. Jeremy Knight [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/ahds/dissemination/pdf/vol16/16_130_133.pdf] [accessed 19 August 2009] argues that it is a 12th-century lamp and gives other examples for comparison]. [NB: the Eastern Conwy Churches Survey of the CPAT [www/cpat.demon.co.uk] states that the Church of St Jerome, Llangwm, " is now disused and the windows boarded up [...] Inside all the fixtures and fittings have been stripped out leaving a few wall memorials heaped on the floor". [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of this church; the present one must delong to the 19th-century restoration]