ST LLAWDDOG'S CHURCH, CENARTH
Site Details
- NPRN
- 309895
- Map Reference
- SN24SE
- Grid Reference
- SN27034150
- Unitary (Local) Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Old County
- Carmarthenshire
- Community
- Cenarth
- Type of Site
- CHURCH
- Broad Class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Period
- Post Medieval
Site Description
St Llawddog's church, Llanon:
"The church is a modern one and has retained none of the features or fittings of its predecessor. The font of the earlier church, thus described by Sir Stephen Glynne in 1855: 'The font is early, a square bowl with the common scalloping' (Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1898, V, xv, 356) is now in the vicarage garden. It is almost certainly of early date, probably of the thirteenth century. It was removed at the recent rebuilding to make room for the font now in use, which itself had been taken from the neighbouring Cardiganshire church of Llandyssilio Gogo [nprn 400361] about seventy years ago [i.e. about 1843] . . . The basin of the font now at Cenarth measures 52 inches in circumference, 14 inches in external diameter, and 12 inches in depth. The heads are at four equal distances, enclosed within a serpentine moulding; in one of the divisions there is a pair of heads, making five in all around the font. In the case of two of the figures the heads rise a trifle above the edge of the font; the other three heads, one of which droops slightly to the left, do not reach the edge. The workmanship is extremely rude, and probably of the thirteenth century. The shaft and base are modern, and quite out of character with the basin. - Visited, 24th April, 1913.
Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1901, VI, i, 155."
(RCAHMW Carmarthenshire Inventory, no.60, pp13-14).
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 04 July 2007.
