Llanfrynach
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12593LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Brynach
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17722648
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Brynach
Site Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A48, W of Cowbridge [NB: not to be mistaken with another 'Llanfrynach' in Powys]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? the original font
Font Notes:
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A later font is noted in Orrin (1988): "The font which stands under the tower has an octagonal bowl set on a slender stem which rests on three steps. Round the top of the rim is the inscription: --'T.C. L.C. churchwardens 1745.'" [NB: although the original fabric of the church is probably 13th-century, we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: around the upper rim of the basin
Inscription Text: "T.C. L.G. churchwardens 1745"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: Orrin (1988: 208)
REFERENCES
- Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988, p. 208