Pentraeth No. 1 / Llanfair Betws Geraint

Noted in a letter to the editor of 'Archaeologia Cambrensis' (issue no. XXIX, 4th series, January 1877: 156-157) from "E.O.": "Pentraeth, in Anglesey, has two fonts. The one is, or was in the porch, the other is inside the church. Both are old fonts and similar in construction, and quite large enough to immerse infants. No one could tell where the one in the porch came from, nor whether it was the original one or not." The web site Churches of the World [http://www.photosofchurches.com/anglesey-pentraeth.htm] notes and illustrates two fonts, but neither of them appears to match the original 1877 description above; on is a very modern font dated 1882 and therefore not in the church in 1877; the other, the source claims, is: "A water stoup made of a 17th century window and the original 12th century barrelled font", though one should take this claim cum grano salis [this 'stoup' is located in the porch]. There is no information in this source about the earlier fonts reported in 1877.