Sully nr. Cardiff No. 1 / Sili / Sulwy

No entry for Sully found in the Domesday Survey. The font here is described and illustrated in Orrin (1988): "a 19th-century font, which is said to have been made for the Great Exhibition of 1851, is goblet-shaped and beautifully and elaborately carved with angels' bodies." The font harks back at the Early English designs on monolithic fonts in which the lower basin narrows and continues down as the stem and lower base; there are figural motifs on the arrises of the basin area and foliate motif under the upper rim and other areas of the font. Octagonal wooden cover "presented as a Lenten offering in 1931". [NB: later in Orrin (ibid.) is stated: "The font was erected circa 1870 in memory of members of the Evans family of Old Sullu House by their daughter, Mrs. Catherine Deakin"]. The Dinas Powys, Sully and Wenvoe Group of Churches web site [www.dinaspowyssullyandwenvoe.church/stjohnthebaptist.html] [accessed 1 July 2017] notes: "There are two fonts in the church. The large ornately carved goblet shaped stone font and the smaller wooden font in the corner behind. This dates from about the 16th century and is shaped like a ships capstan. It is thought to have been carved from a single tree trunk."