Ysbyty Cynfyn / Yspytty C'env'n

Meyrick (1808) repoorts that this church was a chapel of ease to Llanbadar Fawr, with a font "an octagular bason on an octangular pillar"; Meyrick adds that a "druidical circle" consisting of eight stones "occupied the site of the present church". The entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/400479/details/st-johns-church-ysbyty-cynfyn] [accessed 23 January 2020] notes: "The churchyard has three large standing stones set into the southeast curve of its boundary, which may represent the remains of a prehistoric stone circle. It has also been suggested that the stones, first recorded in 1833, were placed here as a nineteenth-century folly. The church was not a parish church during the medieval period, but was a chapel of ease to Llanbadarn Fawr [...] The church may have been a posession of the Knights Hospitaller, but an alternative association with Strata Florida has also been suggested. [...] In 1998 the church was still a chapel of ease. [...] The current church was constructed in 1827, on the same site and in the same location as its predecessor, but possibly to a larger plan and retaining nothing from the earlier fabric. [...] The church has two fonts, one later nineteenth century of Bath Stone, octagonal. The other is an extraordinary nineteenth century wooden font, possibly an exhibition piece of c.1850-60, which has an octagonal wooden bowl with boxwood pointed panels in surrounds with crockets and column shafts and an octagonal base with eight scroll feet with lion heads. Inside is a papier-mâché shallow dish. The font cover is flat with delicate relief stippling and a centre handle of a figure carrying a cross entwined with a snake and acanthus finial. The church was restored in 1910".