Manordeifi, near Lechryd / Maenordeifi / Maenordeivi / Manerdivy

No entry for Manordeifi found in Meyrick (1808). A font in this church is noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925). Described in Lloyd, etc. (2001): "Font. fine square bowl with fluted chamfered base, C12 or C13; the rough quatrefoil band may be later C14. Pattern of opposed half-circles on part of the E side, probably the original design, unfinished." The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300015115-manoreifi-old-church-manordeifi] [accessed 12 January 2020] notes: "Medieval [early-14th century?] church, dedicated to St David, exceptional for its pre- ecclesiological survival. It was probably altered in the C18 and repaired c1835-44, still in the Georgian manner, abandoned as parish church 1899, repaired 1905 and again 1948-73 [...] Fine square font with fluted underside, circular shaft and square base. Three square panels each side with crude quatrefoils but opposed half- circles appear on E side, suggesting a C13 date, with ornament of the later C14. N side is obscured." [The Friends of Friendless Churches web site [www.friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk] cite the Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society (2003, vol. 47) as source for a 13th-century date for the font]. The basin is quadrangular inside and out, much damaged at the upper rim; it is the underbowl that is chamfered and fluted, not the base; it is raised on a cylindrical shaft decorated with a single roll moulding at the top end; thin square lower base, with two more volumes below, in the manner of plinth but as narrow as the lower base; the inner well of the basin is square and lead-lined, with a central drain hole; the north side of the basin is decorated with three four-petalled flowers; the west side has a single four-petalled flower and two pairs of up-and-down concentric circles.