Llangadfan / Llangadvan
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17046LLA
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cadfan
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29486597
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cadfan [aka Cadvan]
Site Location: Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 13 km NW of Llanfair / Llanvair, 16 SW of Llanfyllin, 22 km W of Welshpool
Historical Region: formerly Montgomeryshire
Additional Comments: disused font: moved in the mid-19th century to a museum
Font Notes:
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Griffith (1869) reports a complete restoration of this church in the previous year [ca. 1868?], and "the font ornamental, with red stone shafts and carved caps and bases", obviously a modern replacement brought in at the time; there is no mention of the earlier font. The RCAHM (Montgomery, 1911) reports that, at the time of the restoration in 1867, the former font was moved to the Welshpool Mueum. The CPAT Montgomeryshire Churches Survey Project [www.cpat.demon.co.uk] reports an original stone stoup in the churchyard, one of the few furnishings that survived the 19th-century restoration of the Perpendicular church.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Edwards, Griffith, Rev., Rector of Llangadfan, London: J. Russell Smith, 1869, p. 333
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of the County of Montgomery, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1911, vol. 1: 100, 102