Cerrigydrudion / Cerrig-y-drudion / Cerrig-y-Druidion / Glynnanau farm
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17141CER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29480766
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Site Location: Conwy, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A5, 16 km WNW of Corwen [Coordinates: 53° 1′ 33.6″ N, 3° 33′ 43.2″ W 53.026, -3.562 -- UTM 30U 462307 5875311]
Historical Region: formerly Denbighshire, Clwyd
Additional Comments: disused font / mutilated font / re-cycled as water trough in a farm
Font Notes:
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Noted in a letter to the editor of 'Archaeologia Cambrensis' (issue no. XXIX, 4th series, January 1877: 157) from "E.O.": "At a farm called Glynnanau is an old font somewhat mutilated, and used as a trough. There are three churches in those parts without old fonts. This is said to have been formerly in Cerrig y Drudion old church." The CPAT Eastern Conwy Churches Survey Project [www.cpat.demon.co.uk] notes the replacement of the church furnishings in the 19th century and adds: "An earlier
octagonal font had been removed and was used as water trough beside the A5 at Pont y Glyn (?a few miles to the east)." [NB: this may be the item listed in this Index unde Pontyclun]. [NB: the Church of St. Mary Magdalene is documented since the taxation of 1254, but a church is said to have existed here since the 5th century]
octagonal font had been removed and was used as water trough beside the A5 at Pont y Glyn (?a few miles to the east)." [NB: this may be the item listed in this Index unde Pontyclun]. [NB: the Church of St. Mary Magdalene is documented since the taxation of 1254, but a church is said to have existed here since the 5th century]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone