Cerrigydrudion / Cerrig-y-drudion / Cerrig-y-Druidion / Glynnanau farm

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]