Cilcennin / Cil-Cenin / Cilcennyn / Kilkennin

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: present church is a lete-19thC re-building of a pre-1833 re-building of an earlier church [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nigel Brown, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2010 by Nigel Brown [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1877941] [accessed 5 January 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22537CIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity / Eglwys Cilcennin
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Cilcennin, Lampeter SA48 8RF, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Ceredigion
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km ESE of Aberaeron, 10 km NNW of Newcastle, about 30 km NE of Cardigan
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Davids
Historical Region: Hundred of Ilar -- formerly Cardiganshire
Font Location in Church: [reported in the porch ca. 1906 and 1914]
Century and Period: , [composite]
Church Notes: earlier church may have been dedicated to St. Cennin [aka St. Cenwyn / Cannen]
Evans (1914) notes a modern font in this church, but reports that "the square bowl of the ancient one rests in the porch." The entry for this church in COFLEIN [www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/400416/details/holy-trinity-church-cilcennin] [accessed 5 January 2020] notes: "The church is known to have existed in 1684 [...] a single-celled stucture with a plain, square-headed doorway, two plain windows and a west single bellcote [...] entirely rebuilt in the early nineteenth century (before 1833) on the same site and in the same location as its predecessor, but retaining nothing from the earlier fabric. [...] again substantially rebuilt in 1889-1891 [...] A possible medieval font bowl was noted, lying loose in the porch, in 1906."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.22004, -4.1672
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 13′ 12.14″ N, 4° 10′ 1.92″ W
UTM: 30U 420266 5786154

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Evans, J.T., The Church Plate of Cardiganshire, Stow-in-the-Wold: James H. Halden, 1914