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It is panelled in typical fifteenth century manner, each panel containing a shield but the shields are, by a curious freak, inverted so as better to fit in the panels. One of the shields bears a heraldic charge, viz. — the arms of Sir Rhys ap Thomas (temp. Henry VII) placed the right way up upon the inverted shield. Fig. 27. Font at Narberth. Of oddities in the way of fonts Bletherston has a pentagonal bowl (quite plain), which is, so far as I know, a unique shape for a font. Of Post-Reformation fonts Narberth has a not ungrace- ful specimen of the Classical vase type which was in