Llanfair Orllwyn / Llanfairorllwyn / Llanvair o'r Llwyn / Llanvair Orllwyn / Llanvairy Clwyn

Meyrick (1808) notes the church here but mentions no font in it, nor does Evans (1914). Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a square mounted baptismal font of the Norman period: "Bosses are curiously made to serve as the chief ornament of the early font at Llanfair-Orllwyn." The shapes of this font are all cut at odd angles giving it a strange look. The basin well is round. The entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/411657/details/st-marys-church-penrhiwllan] [accessed 14 January 2020] notes: "The form of the earlier church is not known. The font, whose square bowl has a chamfered underside rising to chamfered-off corners, is fourteenth century in date. The church was rebuilt either in 1808 or c1820, on the the same site and in the same locaton as its predecessor, possibly retaining some of the earlier fabric. [...] not fitted out until 1842 [...] The church was again restored and refitted in 1887".