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

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12475LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael, Llanfihangel-Bryn-Pabuan
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29501521
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Llandrindod Wells LD1 6LN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1597 822557
Site Location: Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4358, 8 km NW of Builth Wells
Historical Region: formerly Brecknockshire
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / recycled font: a pig-trough [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=47861] [accessed 31 December 2006]