Hirnant

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17060HIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St Illog
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29494098
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Illog
Site Location: Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 24 km NW of Welshpool
Historical Region: formerly Montgomeryshire
Additional Comments: disused font / restored font
Font Notes:
The RCAHMW (Montgomery, 1911) Notes: "An entirely new church, erected in 1892 on the site of the old one. The ancient font serves as a flower vase in the rectory garden." The CPAT Montgomeryshire Churches Survey Project [www.cpat.demon.co.uk] reports a medieval font inside this church at the time of its visits in 1996 an2000 "The medieval font appears to have been thrown out at some point and was being used as a flower container in the adjoining rectory garden, from which it was later rescued"; the CPAT (ibid.) further notes: "The church was closed and declared redundant in October 1994".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • 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, p. 47