Lesnewth No. 2 / Lisinwen / Lisniwen / Lysnowydh / Lysnowyth

There is an entry for Lesnewth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SX1390/lesnewth/] [accessed 4 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Ecclesiologist (October 1866, no. 176: 314) reports on church restorations, among which the one at Lesnewth St. Michael's is noted as "restored lately Mr. St. Aubyn in so complete a manner, as almost to amount to a rebuilding [...] The old octagonal granite font is properly replaced." Noted in Cox (1912) as an octagonal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted and illustrated in A Snap in Time [www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Lesnewth.html] [accessed 18 November 2009]. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SX1307690304] (1962) reports: "Circa C13 octagonal font with lead lined bowl." The granite font consists of an octagonal basin with plain sides and graded moulding on the underbowl chamfer, on a plain stem and lower base, both octagonal as well. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration; appears modern. [cf. Index entry for Lesnewth No. 1 for a possible basin of a Norman font in this church]