Llangwyryfon / Llanegorethon / Llangwrddon / Llangwyryvon / Llanygwryddon
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2013 by John Lord [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3609815] [accessed 19 January 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22558LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ursula / Eglwys Santes Ursula
Church Patron Saints: St. Ursula [& the 11000 Virgins]
Church Location: Llangwyryfon, Aberystwyth SY23 4HA, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Ceredigion
Directions to Site: Located off (NW) the B4576, 13 km SSE of Aberystwyth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Davids
Historical Region: Hundred of Ilar -- formerly Cardiganshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church ca. 1808
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Church Notes: present church replaced earlier one in 1880s
Font Notes:
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Meyrick (1808) reports: The font is an old wooden bason, on a stone pillar, standing on two steps. Evans (1914) mentions an "Earthenware Bason in Font" in the church re-built 1880s without further details. The entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/400421/details/st-ursulas-church-llangwyryfon] [accessed 19 January 2020] gives no information on the pre-1880 church here.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.31484, -4.0604
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 18′ 53.42″ N, 4° 3′ 37.44″ W
UTM: 30U 427716 5796586
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood [basin only]