Llanfihangel- yn-Nhowyn / Llanvihangel-Ynhowyn / Llanfihangel-Ynhowyn
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12476LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael, Llanfihangel- yn-Nhowyn
Font Location in Church: [reported inside the church ca. 1849]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: earlier church re-built 1862
Church Address: 48 Minffordd Rd, Caergeiliog, Llanfihangel-yn-Nhywyn, Holyhead LL65 3NA, United Kingdom
Site Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A5, 9 km ESE of Holyhead
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Anglesey
Font Notes:
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The entry for this village in Lewis' Dictionary edition of 1849 notes "the font, a curious oblong basin, of stone" in the interior of the church [NB: this same source notes: "in the western wall of the churchyard is the stoup, or base of the cross". A 1937 survey by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire noted a rectangular font made of gritstone, of unknown date [Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire (1968) [1937]. "Llanfihangel-yn-Nhowyn". An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Anglesey. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 85]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
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]