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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: "The church dates from 1842 [...] It was built in 1853-4 [...] The church was built against the tower of a medieval church. The tower became unsafe and was completely demolished in 1976" [COFLEIN, cf. FontNotes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12453YFE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Pedrog
Church Patron Saints: St. Petroc [aka Pedrog, Perreux, Petrock]
Church Location: Unnamed Rd, Ferwig, Cardigan SA43 1PX, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Ceredigion
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B4548, 4 km N of Cardigan
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Davids
Historical Region: Hundred of Troedyraur -- formerly Cardiganshire
Font Location in Church: reported inside the church ca. 1808 [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Meyrick (1808) writes: "Within the church is the font, highly ornamented; which is a square bason on a a pillar". Lewis' Dictionary edition of 1849 notes of the Parish Church of St. Pedrog: "the font is elaborately ornamented". Evans (1914) reports that "the highly ornamented" font mentioned in Meyrick [cf. supra] was gone by his time and nothing was known of its whereabouts. The entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/400330/details/st-pedrogs-church-y-ferwig] [accessed 22 January 2020] notes: "The church dates from 1842 [...] It was built in 1853-4 [...] The church was built against the tower of a medieval church. The tower became unsafe and was completely demolished in 1976"; it mentions no font in it.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 386884 5775116

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Evans, J.T., The Church Plate of Cardiganshire, Stow-in-the-Wold: James H. Halden, 1914
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, The History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan [...], London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808