Welshpool / Pool / Welchpool / Y Trallwng

INFORMATION

FontID: 17109WEL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Cynfelin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Cynfelin [aka St. Matu]
Country Name: Wales
Location: Powys
Directions to Site: Located 6 km from the English border [Coordinates: 52° 39′ 34.78″ N, 3° 8′ 50.1″ W 52.65966, -3.14725]
Historical Region: formerly Montgomeryshire
Font Location in Church: Buried in the churchyard [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
The RCAHM (Montgomery, 1911) mentions the 1871 renovation of the late-13th century church and notes: "The font is modern, reproduced 'after the fragments of an old one discovered underneath last used; which last one 'a large octagonal basin, unpierced, with rough foliage, after an early English pattern, is buried in the churchyard, about twenty-four feet in front of the south porch'" [NB: the RCAHM (ibid.) gives: Thomas, Hist. Dioc. St. Asaph, 1874, 793fn as source]. The font was probably added by George Street, responsible for the 1871 restoration. The CPAT database [http://www.cpat.org.uk/ycom/wpool/5504.htm] notes: "Font of 1861: traceried octagonal basin on clustered shafts."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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