Llanllugan / Llanlligan

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17097LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century? [lower base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [formerly abbey church]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17744236
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 7 km S of Llanfair Caereinion, 13 km NW of Newtown, 16 SW of Welshpool [Coordinates of the abbey and church: 52° 36′ 38.3″ N, 3° 23′ 34.58″ W 52.61064, -3.39294]
Historical Region: formerly Montgomeryshire
Additional Comments: altered font: only the lower base is original
Font Notes:
The RCAHM (Montgomery, 1911) notes: "The font is a small circular stone basin which was not originally intended for the purpose it now fulfils; it is placed on a modern pillar, but the base is ancient." The CPAT Montgomeryshire Churches Survey Project [www.cpat.demon.co.uk] reports "a medeival font and stoup" in this church.. [NB: the building was originally the church of a pre-Reformation nunnery; it became parochial at the Dissolution].

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, vol. 1: 119