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Church of St Nefydd and St Mary, Llannefydd

The Church of St Nefydd and St Mary is an active parish church in the village of Llannefydd, Conwy County Borough, Wales. The village lies 5m south-east of Abergele. Cadw records that the present church dates from c.1550, although it certainly had earlier origins. It was restored in 1859 and again in 1908–1909 by Henry Harold Hughes. The church is designated by Cadw as a Grade I listed building. History The Church of St Nefydd and St Mary stands in the centre of the village of Llannefydd, 5m south-east of Abergele and close to the border with Denbighshire. The dedications are to Saint Nefydd, a sixth-century Welsh saint of whom almost nothing is known beyond his reputedly being a grandson of Brychan, king of Brycheiniog, and Saint Mary. Nefydd supposedly founded the church in the 5th century, but there is no documentary evidence relating to it which predates 1291. Cadw dates the present church to c.1500, while acknowledging that this was certainly a rebuilding of an earlier church. The circular churchyard and the dedication suggest its origins as a clas church. The church was restored in the mid-19th century and again between 1908 and 1909 by Henry Harold Hughes. The church remains an active parish church in the Diocese of St Asaph and regular services are held. Architecture and description St Nefydd and St Mary's consists of a double nave, a western bellcote and a south porch. The building material is mainly local limestone with roofing in Welsh slate. Edward Hubbard, in his Clwyd volume in the Buildings of Wales series, describes it as a "double-nave Perpendicular church, and a particularly pleasing one". The pulpit is in the Arts & Crafts style and was designed by Hughes. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) records a Hanoverian coat of arms painted on slate. St Nefydd and St Mary is a Grade I listed building. Its Cadw listing record calls it a "fine and well-preserved late medieval parish church". A bier house and a sundial in the churchyard are both listed at Grade II. References Sources Hubbard, Edward (2003). Clwyd: Denbighshire and Flintshire. The Buildings of Wales. New Haven, US and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-140-71052-6. External links RCAHMW photographic survey
St Marcella's Church, Denbigh

St Marcella's Church was the original parish church of Denbigh, in Denbighshire, Wales. Located about a mile east of the centre of the town, the church is dedicated to Saint Marchell (Marcella), a Welsh saint of the 5th/6th centuries. Although with earlier origins, the present church dates to the founding of Denbigh and the building of Denbigh Castle by Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln in around 1290. Most of the current structure dates from a major rebuilding in about 1500. St Marcella's was superseded as the parish church of the town in the 19th century by the more centrally located St Hilary's Chapel. It remains an active church in the Diocese of St Asaph and is a Grade I listed building. History The Church of St Marcella stands on the Whitchurch Road, about a mile south-east of the town of Denbigh. It is dedicated to Saint Marcella the virgin (Marchell), a Welsh saint of the 5th or 6th centuries, who was the sister of Tyfrydog. Cadw suggests that the dedication references the site of a 7th-century cell. The current church dates from the founding of Denbigh and the building of Denbigh Castle by Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln in around 1290. Little remains of this church and the present building dates almost entirely from a reconstruction of around 1500. Among the burials at the church is that of Twm o'r Nant, the Welsh poet, who died in 1810; the church also contains a memorial to him. St Marcella's was replaced as the town's parish church in the 19th century by the more centrally located St Hilary's Chapel. It was restored in that century, and again in the 20th. It remains an active parish church in the Diocese of St Asaph and occasional services are held. Architecture The church is built to a double-nave plan, with a west tower and a south porch. The architectural historian Edward Hubbard, in his 2003 Clwyd volume of the Pevsner Buildings of Wales, considers it one of the best examples of the type in the Vale of Clwyd. The building materials are sandstones of varying shades, and Welsh slate for the roof. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) records the "exceptionally fine" hammerbeam roof which is decorated with carved and painted corbels. The interior contains an impressive collection of funerary monuments dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries. St Marcella's is a Grade I listed building. The lychgate and a monument in the churchyard are listed at Grade II. Gallery Notes References Sources Hubbard, Edward (2003). Clwyd (Denbighshire and Flintshire). The Buildings of Wales. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09627-9. OCLC 315792534. Rees, Rice (1836). An essay on the Welsh saints or the primitive Christians, usually considered to have been the founders of the churches in Wales. London: Longman. External links Media related to St Marcella's Church, Llanfarchell at Wikimedia Commons
Leicester’s Church

Leicester’s Church ist eine unvollendete Kirche in der nordwalisischen Stadt Denbigh. Das im Jahr 1578 auf Anweisung von Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester und Favorit von Königin Elisabeth I., begonnene Gebäude wurde wegen Geldmangels nie fertiggestellt und ist heute eine denkmalgeschützte Ruine. Der Innenraum der geplanten Hallenkirche ist 52 Meter lang und 22 Meter breit. Das zehn Joche umfassende Mittelschiff war 8,20 Meter breit und wurde von abwechselnd paarweise und einzeln angeordneten toskanischen Säulen begrenzt. Die gesamte Nordfassade mit neun Fensteröffnungen ist noch in voller Höhe vorhanden, während von der Westwand und einem Teil der Ostwand nur niedrige Mauerreste erhalten sind. Von den Ecksteinen aus Sandstein und einem einfachen Fries unter den Fensteröffnungen abgesehen ist das Äußere des Gebäudes schlicht und schmucklos gestaltet. Im Gegensatz zu den Außenmauern existieren vom Inneren der Kirche keine Überreste. Mit dem Bau von Leicester’s Church, die ursprünglich als St David’s Church dem heiligen David von Menevia geweiht werden sollte, wollte Dudley die etwa 60 Meter entfernt gelegene St Hilary’s Chapel ersetzen. Das Projekt war der einzige größere Kirchenneubau in Großbritannien während des elisabethanischen Zeitalters; ferner ist Leicester’s Church auch der erste protestantische Kirchenneubau auf britischem Boden. Zum Vikar der noch unfertigen Kirche wurde William Morgan bestimmt, der spätere Bischof von Llandaff und St Asaph und 1588 erster Übersetzer der Bibel ins Walisische. Morgan übte das Amt als Sinekure aus. Es wird angenommen, dass Dudley mit dem Bau des seinerzeit größten Kirchengebäudes Großbritanniens die 8,5 Kilometer nördlich gelegene Kathedrale von St Asaph als Bischofssitz ablösen und die Diözese St Asaph nach Denbigh übertragen wollte. 1584, sechs Jahre nach Baubeginn, wurde die Bautätigkeit aufgrund finanzieller Schwierigkeiten ausgesetzt und Leicester’s Church im halbfertigen Zustand belassen. Der Historiker Thomas Pennant gibt als genauen Grund für den Bauabbruch Konflikte Dudleys mit der lokalen Bevölkerung an sowie die Tatsache, dass der Earl of Essex ein aufgenommenes Darlehen nicht an die Bürger Denbighs zurückgezahlt hatte. Im Oktober 1950 wurde die Kirche in die britische Denkmalliste aufgenommen, wo sie als „Bauwerk von außerordentlicher Bedeutung“ (Grade I) klassifiziert ist. Heute wird Leicester’s Church von der Denkmalschutzbehörde Cadw verwaltet; das Innere der Kirche ist nicht öffentlich zugänglich. Literatur L. A. S. Butler: Denbigh Castle, Denbigh Town Walls, Lord Leicester’s Church, St Hilary’s Chapel, Denbigh Friary. Cadw, 1990, neu bearbeitete Auflage 2007, ISBN 978-1-85760-238-8, S. 42–43. Weblinks Leicester’s Church auf der Website von Cadw (englisch) Leicester’s Church in der Datenbank der Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (englisch) Einzelnachweise
Foxhall Newydd

Foxhall Newydd is a Grade I listed country house, roughly 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) to the southeast of Henllan, Denbighshire, north Wales. The house, planned in a symmetrical H-plan, commenced construction under John Panton of Denbigh in 1592. Though it was never finished and has now been in ruins for over 150 years, it is described by Cadw as "one of the most ambitious and sophisticated projects of Elizabethan house building in Wales". It became a Grade I listed building on 24 October 1950. References
Foxhall Newydd

Foxhall Newydd é uma casa de campo listada de Grau I, a cerca de 1 km (0,62 mi) a sudeste de Henllan, Denbighshire, norte de Gales. A casa, planeada num plano H simétrico, teve a sua construção iniciada sob John Panton de Denbigh em 1592. Embora nunca tenha sido concluída e esteja em ruínas há mais de 150 anos, é descrito por Cadw como "um dos projectos mais ambiciosos e sofisticados de construção de casas elizabetanas no País de Gales". Tornou-se um edifício listado como Grau I no dia 24 de outubro de 1950. Referências
Trevor Hall, Denbighshire

Trevor Hall is a large grade I-listed Georgian mansion standing in 85 acres (35 hectares) of parkland at Trevor, near Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales. The three storey house was built in 1742 in red brick to an H-shaped floor plan. A pedimented doorcase is approached by a double flight of steps. The estate had belonged to the Trevor family since medieval times and was at one time the home of Bishop John Trevor, who built the original Llangollen Bridge in 1345. The present house was built for John Lloyd of Glanhavon, Montgomeryshire, who in 1715 had married Mary Trevor, heiress of the Trevor estate. A carved stone on the outside of the house has their initials, the date 1742, and the Latin motto Dum spiro spero (whilst I breathe, I hope). Ownership passed to the Rice Thomas family when the last Lloyd heiress married Rice Thomas of Coed Helen near Caernarvon. They extended the house and occupied in until 1820, after which it was let to various tenants, including the manager of the local ironworks, a shipping broker from Liverpool, and ultimately the Edwards family, owners of the Trefynant Fire Clay Works of Ruabon. James Coster Edwards was High Sheriff of Denbighshire in 1892. The Edwards family carried out various improvements designed by Oswestry architect W.H. Spaull and occupied the hall for three generations, after which, in 1956, the property reverted to the Coed Helen estate. They had no use for the house and it was sold to a local timber merchant, who felled the trees and planned to demolish the house. Saved by a Preservation order in 1961, the hall was acquired by the WRVS, but damaged by fire in 1963. It was then purchased by a local farmer and equipped with a flat roof for use as a cowshed. The property was purchased in 1987 by Michael Tree, then a chartered surveyor of the Crown Estates, who undertook its restoration before selling it in 1998 to Louis and Louise Parker, who further restored the grounds and interior. It now functions as a country hotel. The former GWR Hall class locomotive 5998 was named after the hall. References
St Cynhafal's Church, Llangynhafal

St Cynhafal's Church is a small, isolated church east of the scattered village of Llangynhafal in Denbighshire, Wales. Its only immediate neighbour is the former rectory, Plas-yn-llan, birthplace of the Rev. Robert Jones, friend of William Wordsworth and where Wordsworth stayed in the 1790s. The church is dedicated to Saint Cynhafal, a 7th-century monk, and is the only such dedication in the United Kingdom. Although with earlier origins, the present church dates to the 13th century, and was largely rebuilt in the 15th. It remains an active church in the Diocese of St Asaph and is a Grade I listed building. History The Church of St Cynhafal stands in an isolated position to the east of the scattered village of Llangynhafal, five miles south-east of Denbigh. It is dedicated to Saint Cynhafal, a 7th-century monk, and is the only such dedication in Britain. Cadw suggests that the dedication references the site of a monastic cell. The current church dates from the 15th century. In the late 18th century the adjacent house, Plas-yn-llan, was the rectory and the Rev. Robert Jones (1769–1835) was born there. He was a close friend of William Wordsworth, who stayed at Plas-yn-llan during the summer of 1791 and again in August and September 1793. The church was restored in the mid-19th century at a cost of £1400. St Cynhafal's remains an active parish church in the Diocese of St Asaph and occasional services are held. Architecture The church is built to a double-nave plan, with a south porch and a bellcote. The architectural historian Edward Hubbard, in his 2003 Clwyd volume of the Pevsner Buildings of Wales, notes that the church was whitewashed in the 19th century and rendered in the 20th. The building materials are limestone and Welsh slate for the roof. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) records the carved reredos, with an effigy of a pelican. Hubbard notes the traditional 17th century dating for this, but suggests a possible later date. St Cynhafal's is a Grade I listed building. Gallery Notes References Sources Hubbard, Edward (2003). Clwyd (Denbighshire and Flintshire). The Buildings of Wales. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09627-9. OCLC 315792534. External links Media related to St Cynhafal's Church, Llangynhafal at Wikimedia Commons
St Dyfnog's Church, Llanrhaeadr

St Dyfnog's Church is a small church in the village of Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch (Llanrhaeadr) in Denbighshire, Wales. The church stands on the western edge of the Llanrhaeadr Hall estate, and its setting was developed by the estate in the 18th and 19th centuries as The Dingle. The eyecatcher at its western end is St Dyfnog's Well. Associated with the 6th century Welsh saint, Saint Dyfnog, to whom the church is dedicated, it became an important holy well pilgrimage site in the 17th century. The church dates from the 13th century, although with much rebuilding in the 15th and 16th. It contains an important Tree of Jesse stained glass window which has been described as "some of the finest glass in Wales". St Dyfnog's remains an active church in the Diocese of St Asaph and is a Grade I listed building. Saint Dyfnog Dyfnog was the son of Medrod ab Caradog Freichfas and a brother of the grandfather of Cwyfen, coming to the area from North Britain. He built a small wooden church on the property which is now the Church of St Dyfnog in Llanrhaeadr. History The first mentions of the church occur in the Norwich Taxatio Ecclesiastica of 1254 and the Lincolnshire Taxatio of 1291. The South chamber and the door of the tower may both date from this time. The "particularly fine enriched roofs" are later, dating from re-modellings in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Jesse window, the church's most famous feature, dates from 1533. The window is reputed to have been removed and buried during the English Civil war to protect it from destruction. It was re-instated in 1661. The church suffered at the hands of Victorian restorers; Arthur Baker's restoration of 1879–1880 is described as "indifferent" by Cadw and as "inappropriate" in the Clwyd volume of The Buildings of Wales. The church remains an active parish church within the Mission Area of Denbigh. Architecture and description The church is constructed of limestone rubble with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. It has a double nave, a South chamber and a four-storey tower. The architectural historian Edward Hubbard notes the style as Perpendicular, with the possible exception of the tower door. The interior contains a "wonderfully complete" Tree of Jesse window, described by Cadw as "the apogee of the early Tudor North Wales school of glazing". The window, showing Jesus's descent from Jesse, has been called "the finest Glass window in all Wales, exceeded by few in England". The church also contains a number of significant monuments to local grandees including those of Watkin Edwards Wynne and Maurice Jones, the latter "large and Baroque, (a) reclining bewigged effigy". There is also a rare carved pelican, dated 1792, shown feeding its young with its blood. The church is a Grade I listed building, the listing recording it as "an exceptionally fine late medieval church (with) the famous Jesse window". Gallery Notes References Hubbard, Edward (2003). Clwyd: Denbighshire and Flintshire. The Buildings of Wales. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09627-5. OCLC 909280390.
Bodrhyddan Hall

Bodrhyddan Hall is a country house in Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales. It is a Grade I listed building. The present building is a 1690s remodelling of an earlier building dating from the 16th century. It was later upgraded by the architect William Eden Nesfield, who in 1875 added a new west facing entrance front and a service wing and refaced the east front.The hall is built in brick in 3 storeys with some terracotta detail and slate roofs. The west entrance frontage has 5 bays with a 4-storey projecting porch. The side elevations have 9 bays (arranged 2-1-3-1-2), the south front looking over a parterre. Some of the garden features and outbuildings are also listed. The gardens and park are designated Grade II* on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. The house and gardens may be visited by the public. History Bodrhyddan traditionally belonged to the Conway family, descending in the male line until the death of the last male heir, Sir John Conway, 2nd Baronet, in 1721. Bodrhyddan then passed via his daughter Penelope to the Stapletons and eventually by marriage to Rev. William Davies Shipley, Dean of St Asaph. The dean's eldest son was killed in a shooting accident and so the Hall passed to his grandson William, who adopted the surname Shipley-Conwy. Captain William Shipley-Conwy never married, and on his death the estate passed to his sister Charlotte, who was married to Richard Thomas Rowley, the second son of Baron Langford of Somerhill, County Meath. It then descended in that family, renamed Rowley-Conwy, to Rafe Grenville Rowley Conwy, who died unmarried in 1951, leaving the estate to his nephew the 9th Baron Langford. Lord Langford died at Bodrhyddan in 2017 at the age of 105 and was succeeded by his son Hon. Owain Grenville Rowley-Conwy. References External links official website
Church of Saint Digain

The Church of St Digain is a Grade II* listed building in Llangernyw, Conwy County Borough, Wales. The church is dedicated to Saint Digain, who is said to have lived in the 5th century. The name of the village is translated as "the church of the Cornishman". The church dates from medieval times but is much later than the time of Digain. Churchyard The parish church stands south of the centre of a roughly oval-shaped churchyard. In the churchyard is an ancient tree, the Llangernyw Yew. While yews are a typical species in Welsh churchyards, this one stands out for its age. Yews are difficult to date, but some authorities assume that it has been growing on the site since pre-Christian times. The churchyard contains monuments to the Sandbach family of Hafodunos, including a listed mausoleum. References External links Website Clwyd Family History Society
Pen-y-clawdd Farmhouse, Raglan

Pen-y-clawdd Farmhouse, Raglan, Monmouthshire is a gentry house dating from the early 17th century. Owned by the Bradburys, High Sheriffs of Monmouthshire, and later by the Williams family and then the Prichards of Penallt, it remains a privately owned farmhouse. The building is Grade II* listed. History Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in their three-volume guide Monmouthshire Houses, give building dates for the house from 1600 to 1680. Cadw suggests a longer construction period, from the mid-16th to the early 18th centuries. The owners in the 18th century were the Bradburys, High Sheriffs of Monmouthshire, "whose extravagant living ruined the estate". During the Bradbury's tenure, the Swearing Room in the house was used as a courtroom. The farm subsequently had a number of owners from the Monmouthshire gentry and remains the working farmhouse of a privately owned farm. Architecture and description The architectural historian John Newman describes Pen-y-clawdd as "a well-preserved farmhouse demonstrating the typical improvements of a family going up in the world". The building is of whitewashed rubble and constructed to a height of two storeys with attics. The interior includes the panelled Swearing Room, and an upper chamber with a fireplace decorated with Delft tiles depicting Biblical scenes. The farmhouse has a Grade II* listing, its listing describing it as "a substantial 17th century house of the minor gentry". The farm's large, red-brick and timber barn has a separate Grade II listing. Fox and Raglan give a date for the barn of the late 17th century. Notes References Fox, Cyril; Raglan, Lord (1994). Renaissance Houses. Monmouthshire Houses. Vol. 3. Cardiff: Merton Priory Press Ltd & The National Museum of Wales. ISBN 1-898937-00-1. OCLC 776066469. Newman, John (2000). Gwent/Monmouthshire. The Buildings of Wales. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-071053-1.
St Govan's Church, Llangovan

The Church of St Govan in Llangovan, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a church with late-medieval origins. Renovations took place in the late 19th century. It is a Grade II* listed building and, since being declared redundant in the late 20th century, has been managed by the Vincent Wildlife Trust as a bat colony. History The church is of Norman origin but the existing structure dates from the 14th/15th centuries. Further building works took place in the 17th century. A Victorian restoration was undertaken in 1888–1890 by A. W. Probyn and J. P. Moore of Gloucester. The church was declared redundant in the late 20th century and, since 1999, has been leased to the Vincent Wildlife Trust which manages the church as a bat roosting site. Occasional public access is permitted when this would not disturb the bat colony. Architecture and description The architectural historian John Newman describes the building as "late medieval" but with evidence of its earlier origins. The church is small, comprising a nave, a chancel and a porch together with a "gabled double bellcote". Notes References Newman, John (2000). Gwent/Monmouthshire. The Buildings of Wales. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-071053-1. External links Media related to St Govan's Church, Llangovan at Wikimedia Commons
St Martin's Church, Pen-y-clawdd

The Church of St Martin, Pen-y-clawdd, Monmouthshire, Wales is a parish church with Norman origins which was rebuilt in the 15th century. It is located on the site of an early Welsh defensive earthwork. The church was restored in 1884–85. It remains an active church in the parish of Llangovan with Pen-y-clawdd. It is a Grade II* listed building. History The church dates from the Norman period but is located on the site of an earlier earthworks. The present building was constructed in the late 15th or early 16th centuries. The church was restored in the Victorian period by Henry Prothero. The church remains an active parish church. Architecture and description The building is of Old Red Sandstone rubble with slate roofs. The church comprises a nave, chancel, and tower with a pyramidal roof. During the Victorian restoration, a stone coffin lid of the medieval period was discovered. It is carved in relief with a Greek cross and is now on display in the chancel. Cadw describes it as of the 14th century, while the architectural historian John Newman attributes it to the late 13th century and notes, "It must once have been a fine thing". The church is a Grade II* listed building, its listing recording the "fine barrel roofs" dating from the 15th century. Notes References Newman, John (2000). Gwent/Monmouthshire. The Buildings of Wales. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-071053-1.