page_title: Granston
section_title: Places of worship
hierarchical_section_title: Granston / Places of worship
caption_attribution_description: English: Open Air Baptismal Pool, Llangloffan There is no baptismal pool in Llangloffan Baptist Chapel. Baptisms take place in the open air using the river by Pont Llangloffan. The minister would walk down the steps to perform the baptisms in the river.
context_page_description: Granston is a hamlet and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The parish was in the Hundred of Dewisland and includes the settlements of Llangloffan and Tregwynt, with Tregwynt woollen mill. Granston is in the community of Pencaer.
context_section_description: The parish was annexed to that of Mathry and the church dedicated to St Catherine (sometimes recorded as Katherine), one of only three mediaeval churches in Wales to be dedicated to the saint. When the church was visited by the Royal Commission in 1920 it was found to have been constructed in 1877 with no evidence of the mediaeval structure save an octagonal font probably from the 14th century. However, the diocesan description notes that the foundations are mediaeval.
  The parish includes the hamlet of Llangloffan, where there is a Baptist chapel. The original chapel was built in 1706, restored in 1749 and 1791 and rebuilt in 1862. There is no baptismal pool at the chapel, baptisms being performed at a specially constructed site in the Western Cleddau at Pont Llangloffan, south of the hamlet. Llangloffan is the name of a Welsh hymn melody (composer unknown).
  Archives for both churches are kept by Dyfed Family History Society.
caption: River baptismal pool, Pont Llangloffan
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