{"id":99,"date":"2014-02-08T13:59:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T13:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2014-02-08T18:39:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T18:39:46","slug":"1684-the-parish-church-of-st-mary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/penllech\/eglwysig-ecclesiastical\/1684-the-parish-church-of-st-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"(1684) THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(1684) THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY (Fig. 99, Plate 34)\u00a0stands near the S. end of the parish and is reached from the\u00a0farmyard beside Plas-ym-Mhenllech (No. 1685), the direct\u00a0approach from the S.E. having been closed. The church has no\u00a0division other than a chancel step, part of which remains\u00a0beneath the pulpit. The walls are built of rubble. The slate\u00a0roof is modern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1684.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102\" alt=\"1684\" src=\"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1684.jpg\" width=\"481\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1684.jpg 481w, http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1684-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The church was partly rebuilt in 1840; most of the S. and W.\u00a0walls and all the existing openings appear to be of this date,\u00a0which is cut on the door and on one of the roof trusses. In the\u00a0older, roughly coursed, masonry remaining mostly in the\u00a0lower part of the N. wall the junction between nave and\u00a0chancel has been masked by patching, but there is enough\u00a0difference between the two to suggest that they were built in\u00a0succession as in other churches of this region. As the chancel<br \/>\nbears traces of three slit windows it seems likely that both\u00a0parts were medieval in origin.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fittings<\/em>.<em>-Books:<\/em> register, etc., see p. cxxxvii. <em>Communion\u00a0table:<\/em> with turned legs, 18th-century. <em>Communion rails:<\/em> plain,\u00a0early 19th-century. <em>Font:<\/em> plain cylindrical bowl, 2 ft. in\u00a0diameter, standing on modem square base; bowl possibly\u00a0medieval. A stone drum, I I.5 ins. in diameter, I ft. 2 ins. high,\u00a0roughly squared at base and kept beside the font, is probably the\u00a0original stand, or part of it. <em>Plate:<\/em> (i) Plain silver chalice with\u00a0deep beaker-shaped bowl on truncated stem; height 7.5 ins.\u00a0London date-letter, 1710-11; maker&#8217;s mark illegible. (ii) Paten<br \/>\nof old Sheffield plate, with gadrooned border. on three feet;\u00a0diameter 8 ins. Probably early 19th-century. <em>Pulpit<\/em> (Plate 34):\u00a0octagonal, panelled, with suspended sounding board, decorated\u00a0with fret and moulding at edge, eight-rayed sun in relief\u00a0beneath; early 19th-century. Contemporary reading desk<br \/>\nbeside it. Seating: to the E. are three panelled box-pews; to the<br \/>\nW. the rest is of fixed open benches; all early I 9th-century.<\/p>\n<p>Condition: partly rebuilt, good.<\/p>\n<p>SH 21993440 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a024 Xii 59 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 39 S.W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1684) THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY (Fig. 99, Plate 34)\u00a0stands near the S. end of the parish and is reached from the\u00a0farmyard beside Plas-ym-Mhenllech (No. 1685), the direct\u00a0approach from the S.E. having been closed. The church has no\u00a0division other than a chancel step, part of which remains\u00a0beneath the pulpit. The walls are built of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":157,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99"}],"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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/103"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/edern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}