Llanvihangel-Bryn-Pabuan / Llanfihangel-Bryn-Pabuan / Llanfihangel Bryn Pab Ioan

INFORMATION

FontID: 12475LLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: Wales
Location: Powys
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NW of Builth
Historical Region: formerly Brecknockshire
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
The entry for this village in Lewis' Dictionary edition of 1849 reports: "During the parliamentary war in the reign of Charles I [ca. 1649] the parish suffered greatly [...] the church was converted into a stable, and the font was removed to a farmhouse, where it was used as a pig-trough". The Church Builder (no. 22, April 1867: 61) repeats much of the information in Lewis [cf. supra] and adds: "a piece of the side was broken off in its transit, and there is large notvh still existing". [NB: we have no recent information on the whereabouts of the basin or the surviving fragment].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

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