Llantilio Crossenny / Llandeilo Gresynni

The entry for this church in Cadw [https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=2073] [accessed 9 August 2023] notes: "An earlier pre-Norman, probably timber-framed church, almost certainly existed on the site. According to tradition, a battle against Saxon invaders took place in C6 at Llantilio Crossenny and the local ruler Iddon triumphed after asking for St Teilo, Bishop of Llandaff, to pray for victory. The earliest fabric of the present Church dates from C12. The crossing tower is probably late C12, and Early English. The W aisle walls have small lancets which survive from the original late C12 nave. Subsequently this nave was remodelled in C15 Perpendicular style and a clerestory added. The chancel was rebuilt in the early C14, and the N transept enlarged and extended E to form a Lady Chapel. At some stage, probably in C14, the pavement at the E end was considerably heightened. In C17 the Lady Chapel came to be known as the Cil-lwch Chapel (anglicised to Killough) and, between 1697-1835, successive gentry families from Great Killough were buried here. The spire was added to the tower in 1708-9 when the bell chamber was strengthened, and the windows in the S aisle date from the Victorian restoration of 1857 by Prichard and Seddon" [no font mentioned in it]. The entry for this church in the Llantilio Crosseny Group of Churches [https://llantiliogroup.info/our-churches/llantilio-crossenny-church/st-teilo-church-design/] [accessed 9 August 2023] notes: "The Font (Norman). The oldest object in the church is probably the font which has very simple dog tooth moulding around the edge, and stands on a stone pedestal. At some point it was removed from the church but was found in the early years of this century in the church-yard and restored to its proper place." Described and illustrated in Thurlby (2006) who points out that this font "is s smaller version of the fonts at Bredwardine and Kilpeck (Herefs.) A history of St Teilo's church [www.btinternet.com/~llantilio/chhistory.htm] notes: "12th century Norman font discovered in the churchyard early this century". The font consists of a hemispherical basin that is plain but for a a zigzag or saw-tooth pattern incised on the upper surface of the rim; this same area displays at opposite ends two large hole and two damaged areas, all of them consistent with the location of the old cover hardware