Aberllyvni / Aberllunvey / Aberllynfi / Aberllynvy / Aberllyfny / Aberllynfy / Three Cocks

Results: 3 records

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12407ABE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, basin only?
Font Date: 1635
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Stuart
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Eigon [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Eigon
Church Notes: church fell into disuse in the 18thC; the church was probably a simple, two-celled building, perhaps originally a chapel to the castle, and has subsequently assumed the role of a village church though there is no churchyard. Glasbury church register records marriages and baptisms at Aberllynfi up until 1695 and it appears to have gone out of use soon afterwards, though a date as late as 1731 has been proposed [source: http://www.glasburyhistoricalsociety.co.uk/settlementaberllynfi.htm] [accessed 1 July 2025]
Church Address: Three Cocks / Aberllynfi. Hay LD3, United Kingdom
Site Location: Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared church is located off the A438, 2 km S pf Glasbury, 8 km WSW of Hay-on-Wye, at the junction of the river Llyvni with the Wye, 50m SE of the castle
Historical Region: Hundred of Talgarth / Breconshire / Brecknockshire
Additional Comments: abandoned font / disused font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Lewis' Dictionary of 1849 reports: "an octagonal stone font, ornamented in its different compartments with mullets and crosses, and bearing the date 1635" was located in a farmhouse adjoining the ruins of the former parish church of Aberllyvni. Lewis (ibid.) adds: "an aged yew-tree indicates the site of the building, but the whole is now [i.e., ca. 1849] covered by a small plantation of firtrees".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 486181 5765816

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: "1635"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1833, [www.british-history.ec.uk/report.asp?compid=47796] [accessed 15 December 2006]