Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain / Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain / Llansanfret / Llansantfred / Lansantfreit / Llannsanfrayd / Llansanfrayd / Llansantfraid / Llansanfrayt / Llansanfrayde / Llansanfreyt / Llansayntefrayde / Llansainffred / Llansanfraid / Llansanffraid
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Scene Description: the old basin on the 1871 base and on the present one [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: pencil sketch by MT/BSI: the font in 1871 and at present
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 17960LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Ffraid
Font Location in Church: inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Brigid of Ireland [aka Brigit, Bridget, Bride, Brydoch, Brydock, Ffraed, Ffraid, Fraed]
Church Notes: notes and illustrations of the church and font at http://www.llansantffraidandllanfechain.org.uk/llansantffraid.pdf [accessed 9 March 2012] [image download/copy not available]
Site Location: Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Locate 8 km SW of Oswestry, near the county border with Shropshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Asaph
Historical Region: formerly Montgomeryshire -- Hundreds of Deythur and Pool-- in the medieval cantref of Mechain
Additional Comments: altered font: the present stem, lower base and plinth are modern, 19th- or 20th-century
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the Meini Bywiol/Living Stones project [www.llansantffraidandllanfechain.org.uk/llansantffraid.pdf] [accessed 9 March 2012]; the font consists now of an egg-cup shaped basin decorated with a single flat and broad moulding at the upper rim, raised on a plain cylindrical shaft and a circular splaying lower base; on an octagonal plinth; only the basin is original, said to be of the 13th century, and was, until 1871 at least, on a different base, a set of three square volumes of different widths.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 489879 5846325
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round