Pentraeth No. 2 / Llanfair Betws Geraint

INFORMATION

FontID: 17114PEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary / Eglwys y Santes Fair
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Wales
Location: Anglesey, Gwynedd
Directions to Site: Located at the A5025 - B5109 crossroads, about 12 km NNW of Bangor and the Menai Bridge [Coordinates: 53° 17′ 1.43″ N, 4° 13′ 1.02″ W 53.28373, -4.21695]
Font Location in Church: In the porch [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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. There is no information in this source about the earlier fonts reported in 1877.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone