Llanymawddwy / Llanymowddwy

The font is not mentioned in either Lewis' Dictionary (1833) or in the National Gazetteer (1868). The entry in the RCAHM's An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VI. County of Merioneth, (London: HMSO, 1921) illustrates (fig. 24) the font here. The listing for this church in COFLEIN [https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/43906/details/st-tydechos-church-llanymawddwy] [accessed 26 December 2019] notes: "St Tydechno’s Church was first mentioned in documents of 1254. [...] The octagonal font with scalloped decoration is medieval, and currently sits on a millstone." The R.K. Williams site [website.lineone.net/~dyfival1/framedyfi.htm] [accessed 31 December 2006] notes the church of St Tydecho with "the font where soldiers once sharpened their swords before a long-forgotten battle at Bwlch-y-Groes". Illustrated in Thurlby (2006), who notes: "This has been dated to the fourteenth century but the scallops indicate that the twelfth century is more likely as in the associate design at Til-Châtel (Côted'Or). This would better suit the tub shape of the font and also the simple raised middle band." [NB: the font at Til-Châtel is usually dated to the 12th-century expansion of the Église Saint-Florent]. The font appears raised on a roughly hemispherical base, much wider than the font and probably never meant to go with it. The wooden cover is octagonal and has moulded sides with some carving detail between the mouldings; appears modern.