Meliden No. 2 / Allt Melid / Allt Melyd / Gallt Melyd / Prestetone

There is a multiple-entry entry for Meliden and Prestatyn [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ0681/meliden/] [accessed 26 December 2019]; it mentions a church in it. The entry for this parish in the RCAHM's An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, vol. 2, County of Flint, p. 58 (London: HMSO, 1912) notes: "The font is use is dated 1686. The octagonal bowl of an earlier font was found during the restoration of the church in 1884; each panel represents a Gothic opening of 14th century character." The old font in Meliden church is described in Hubbard (1986): "The bowl looks like late C12 or early C13. It has eight panels, each containing a pointed arch. Crude roll mouldings delineate panels and arches, and along the top is a series of stepped recesses." The parish web site [www.parishofmeliden.org.uk/page2.htm] [accessed 26 December 2019], however, notes: "The font by the door has been dated to 1175 and so has survived more than 800 years - including almost 300 years when it was walled up. It was probably hidden during the Reformation. The Church had another font, dated 1686, so that was given to Towyn - the original one, now by the door, was re-mounted in the 1930s in memory of a long-serving Vicar, the Rev. David Griffiths."