sentences:  Hando recounts the story told to him by an old lady who had lived in Mathern and who claimed to have seen for herself, in 1881, the stone coffin bearing the remains of St. Tewdrig with his mortal wound (a hole in the skull made by a spear-point) still visible.The medieval font was recovered from beneath the porch by Canon E. T. Davies in 1943.Close to the church is the ancient St. Tewdric's Well, mentioned by the historian Nennius in the 8th or 9th century.