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<\/a>The oldest work\u00a0remaining in the lower courses between the straight joints in\u00a0the E. and W. walls is presumably no older than the 14th\u00a0or 15th century.<\/p>\nThe church was repaired and restored in 1850. Of this date\u00a0are the slate roof-coverings, the gable copings and the renewed\u00a0bell-cote on the central W. gable, most of the gable\u00a0crosses, some of the windows, and the open pews. The W.\u00a0gables have been partly raised. Other repairs were made in\u00a01943. Steps and a balustrade at the central altar have recently\u00a0been added.<\/p>\n
The church is important for its dated work, as a key to\u00a0dating other churches or their extensions of the Tudor period\u00a0in this region. The Central Aisle<\/em> (38 ft. 9 ins. by I5 ft. 9 ins.) is bounded\u00a0both to N. and S. by arcades replacing original walls. The E.\u00a0window (Plate 18), of three lights, is almost exactly similar to\u00a0that of the N. aisle, but its arch is flatter and the hood-mould\u00a0has short returns instead of carved stops; it was probably\u00a0inserted in place of a smaller window when the N. aisle was\u00a0added. The W. window, of two lights and perpendicular \u00a0tracery in a pointed two-centred head, was inserted in 1850.<\/p>\n Below it are traces of a blocked doorway.\u00a0The arcade between the central and S. aisles (Plate 14) is\u00a0of three bays with four-centred arches like those of the N.\u00a0arcade but is more elaborate. The arches have two hollow chamfered\u00a0orders. The octagonal piers or responds are larger\u00a0and nearly regular, have double cuts on the diagonal faces The S. Aisle (39 ft. 3 ins. by 16 ft. 6 ins.) has thinner walls\u00a0than the others. Its E. window (Plate 18) appears to be nearly\u00a0contemporary with those of the central and N. aisles and\u00a0resembles them, except that all three main lights are ogee moulded\u00a0and that the upper side lights have straight supramullions\u00a0instead of cusped tracery; its hood-mould has straight\u00a0returns like those of the central window, the arch of which it\u00a0matches in trace. Of the two windows in the S. wall, the E.\u00a0window, of two trefoiled lights with square head and carved\u00a0spandrels under a moulded label, is original with inner jambs\u00a0and lintel re-set; the other, of three lights under a four-centred\u00a0head, was inserted in 1850. The s. doorway (Plate 20) has\u00a0casement-moulded jambs continuous with its four-centred\u00a0arch under a hood-mould; although partly renewed it is\u00a0substantially of the early 16th century.<\/p>\n In each aisle the roof is of five bays with four trusses, all of\u00a0arch-braced collar-beam type and of the 15th or early 16th\u00a0century but partly re-arranged. Those in the N. aisle have\u00a0raking struts, cusped at the E. and W. trusses, plain at the other\u00a0two; those in the other aisles are without struts. All the trusses\u00a0rest -on modern stone corbels, and most of the purlins and\u00a0rafters have been renewed.<\/p>\n Fittings.<\/em>-Books: see p. cxxxv. Bell:<\/em> in bell-cote, inscribed\u00a0ST. GWYNHOYDYL ANN DOM 1788. For Celtic hand-bell\u00a0formerly kept in the church and now at National Museum of\u00a0Wales, see under Finds, p. xli. According to the present\u00a0occupants of Bryn-y-gloch (No. 1687), there is a local tradition\u00a0that it was found under the hearth there. Font (Plate 26): of\u00a0gritstone, octagonal, the bowl chafmered and filleted below,\u00a0the faces carved in sunk relief, at S. a mitred head full-face, at\u00a0N. a human face with head-dress perhaps a crown, a E. a The condition of the church before 1850 is described in Arch.\u00a0Camb.<\/em>, 1848, pp. 146-50. The architect for the restoration in\u00a0that year was Henry Kennedy (M. L. Clarke, Trans. Caerns.\u00a0Hist. Soc.<\/em>, XXII (1961), p. 30, n. 23). Subsequent descriptions\u00a0appear in Arch. Camb.<\/em>, 1900, pp. 315-16 (state in 1855) and\u00a01956, pp. 147-9\u00b7<\/p>\n Condition: good. (1638) THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. GWYNHOYDL (Fig. 83,\u00a0Plates 9, 14, 18,20,21,26, 39) stands near the E. extremity of\u00a0the parish. It consists ofthree aisles of equal length; the central\u00a0aisle is divided from the side aisles by arcades, both of three\u00a0bays, and contains the chancel though without structural\u00a0division. The N. aisle and arcade were added to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":155,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320\/revisions\/325"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nArchitectural description.-The N. Aisle<\/em> (39 ft. by 15ft.\u00a06 ins.) has in its N. wall three windows dating from 1850, of\u00a0which the central one, of three lights under a four-centred\u00a0head, replaces a small loop like that still in the W. wall, while\u00a0the W. window of the three replaces a doorway which was\u00a0the entrance to a school in this aisle before 1850, the door\u00a0jambs being visible below the window on the exterior.\u00a0The window in the E. wall (Plate 18) dates from the erection\u00a0of this aisle in 1520; of three cinquefoiled lights, the central\u00a0one ogee-arched, the others pointed two-centred, it has\u00a0vertical tracery under a pointed four-centred head and a hoodmould\u00a0with human-headed stops (that on the N. a modern\u00a0renewal), the jambs and reveals splayed and plain. The W.\u00a0wall contains a small pointed light, now blocked. The arcade\u00a0between the N. and central aisles (Plate 14) is of three bays;\u00a0each arch is four-centred and of two chamfered orders; the\u00a0piers or responds are elongated octagons or semi-octagons in\u00a0plan, without capitals, and plain except for an ogee-pointed\u00a0niche in the W. face of the E. pier (Plate 21) and the\u00a0inscriptions on this pier and the E. respond recording the\u00a0erection of this aisle in 1520 over the burial-place of the patron\u00a0saint, Gwynhoydl.<\/p>\n
\n(in plan as at Abererch, No. 1482, and Llanengan, No. 1590),\u00a0and moulded capitals and bases combining roll and hollow.\u00a0The arcade, like the S. Aisle, probably dates from ca. 1530.<\/p>\n
\nfleur-de-lis, at W. a shield with a plain cross, at S.W. the blackletter
\ninitials ‘i h c’, on each of the other faces a flower of\u00a0different pattern; on a plain octagonal pedestal and chamfered\u00a0plinth. Total height 3 ft. I in., width of bowl 1 ft. I0 ins.\u00a0Probably ca. 1520. Glass:<\/em> odd fragments of stained glass re-set\u00a0at top of upper lights in the central E. window. Inscriptionsl
\n(Plate 2I): on N. arcade, (i) on E. respond, black-letter in\u00a0sunk relief, on both S.W. and S.E. faces ‘Ihc’ (or s); below\u00a0round all three faces ‘s(anctus) gwynhoydyl I iacet : hic’;\u00a0(ii) on E. pier, similarly cut, starting at the S.W. in one line\u00a0running as far as niche in W. face ‘hec edes edificata est in\u00a0an(n)o d(omi)ni,’ below niche on W. face ‘ihro’, blackletter\u00a0forms of the arabic numerals 1520, opposite which a
\nsmall flower of six petals on the E. face. Memorials:<\/em> (i) in S.\u00a0aisle upright against E. wall, grit slab to John Lloyd, 1667.\u00a0also to his wife Elizabeth, 1696, daughter of William Wynne,\u00a0of Glynne (Merioneth). (ii) in N. aisle upright against E. wall,\u00a0slate slab to Catherine Owen, 1717, great-granddaughter to\u00a0John Lloyd in (i). (iii) In churchyard, on S., table tomb on slate\u00a0to Francis Lloyd, of Nantgwnadl, 1694; inscription much\u00a0defaced, renewed by his descendant Anabella, wife of Richard\u00a0Edwards, of Nanhoron. Niche<\/em> (Plate 21): in E. pier of N.
\narcade, on W. face, a shallow ogee-headed opening. Plate:\u00a0<\/em>(i) Silver chalice (Plate 39), with deep beaker-shaped bowl\u00a0flaring slightly, on a short stem moulded above the plain ring\u00a0and at the foot, the bowl engraved near the rim with interlacing\u00a0strapwork and foliage, also below the middle with a\u00a0band of hyphens in four rows, the foot engraved similarly\u00a0in three rows. Inscribed inside the base I : G. London dateletter\u00a0for 1574-5. Maker’s mark, H S in monogram in hollowshaped\u00a0shield (for Henry Sutton?). Height 5.5 ins. (ii) Silver\u00a0paten-cover, inscribed + 1574. Same marks as (i). Diameter\u00a03.25 ins. Miscellaneous:<\/em> Set in the inner face of the E. wall of the\u00a0S. aisle is a stone inscribed with a circle and cross: three ends are\u00a0bifurcated but the base has a small foot; perhaps ca. 600<\/em>.<\/p>\n
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