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moulded beams, of which there are two on the head of tlie screen itself, four on 

 the lower beam of the rood loft, and two on the beam above the seventeen panels 

 of open tracery, which are fixed between moulded mullions and form the front of 

 the rood loft. The beam over these panels has large holes cut in its top at almost 

 regular intervals, which indicate that there probably was another enrichment 

 over it. Except the screen at Llangwm, near Usk, I have not seen anything to 

 compare with the one at Fartrishaw. Such skill is a lasting memento of the 

 persevering skill and conscientious workmanship of our pious forefathers, who 

 loved their Christian art so well as to labour to produce such work to the glory of 

 God, and to the edification of worshippers at His altar. There was, no doubt, a 

 cove with moulded ribs and carving between the head of the screen itself and the 

 enriched beam under the rood loft, as at Llangwm, but more flat. The screen 

 and rood loft at Partrishaw, when carefully repaired, will be v ery similar to the 

 one at Llangwm. 



Altars. — There are two original stone altars against the western face of the 

 rood screen, near the north and south walls ; some of the crosses may still be dis- 

 tinguished on them. 



Font. —The curious font has been fully described by Professor Westwood. 

 It is large and circular, with a narrowed circular base of rough masonry plastered 

 over, which stands on a broader circular base, also of rough masonry, covered 

 with thin slabs. Westwood describes this as a circular block. The upper p.art of 

 the font measures 34 inches in its external diameter, the basin being 20 inches in 

 diameter, with an excavated drain. The outside of the body of the font is quite 

 plain, but upon theilat ridge of the top of the font is the inscription " Menhir me 

 fecit i{n) te(m)pore genillin," consisting of rudely formed letters of irregular size, 

 being for the most part Anglo-Saxon minuscules. On either side are two holes 

 for the staples for the cover, and also two semi-foliated ornaments, extending 

 into a line which runs all round within the outer edge, and encloses the inscription. 

 From Jones' Breconshire, we learn that Cynhyllyn, or Genyllin Voel, the only 

 son and heir of Rhys Goch, was lord of Ystradyw (the name of this district) 

 as well as Prince of Powis, in the middle of the 11th century, and that the church 

 itself was consecrated by Herewald, who was consecrated Bishop of Llandaff in 

 1056, under the name of Methur Lssur, evidently corrupted from Merthyr Ishaw, 

 or St. Ishaw the Martyr. Hence we learn that the font is coeval with the dedica- 

 tion of the church in the year 1060, and this is of considerable importance, as we 

 have in this inscription round its top a very different style of letters either from 

 the debased Roman capitals of Paulinus, and the^ other earlier stones, or the 

 Hiberno-Saxon characters of the Llantwit and other similar monuments. The 

 system of contracting the words, wherever possible, had also commenced. The 

 foliated ornament on the rim has suggested a later date to the font, but Westwood 

 has cited many instances of similar foliated ornamentation in the Anglo-Saxon 

 MSS. at the end of the 10th and of the lith centuries. The Rev. F. T. Havergal 

 has kindly sent a note to state, that "the letters on the rim of the font are cer- 

 tainly such as were in general use in the 10th century"; a very important point, 

 which has sometimes been called in question. 



