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St Michael's Church, Efenechtyd

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NPRN309580
Map ReferenceSJ15NW
Grid ReferenceSJ1116055780
Unitary (Local) AuthorityDenbighshire
Old CountyDenbighshire
CommunityEfenechtyd
Type Of SiteCHURCH
PeriodPost Medieval
Description

A simple, small, single chamber church that has been substantially alterered in more recent times, although it retains a number of interesting features. The east window of two lights is of Decorated style, and therefore unusual for the region, the remaining windows are modern. The roof is also unusual, comprising arched-braced principals alternating with single common rafters. Part of the medieval rood screen is used as panelling around the pulpit. The church includes a rare example of a circular wooden font of oak construction, with fourteen carved facets.  Recorded wall paintings consist of a fragmentary 16th/17th-century Decalogue (Ten Commandments) in Welsh, rendered in extremely angular and formal black letter text with red underlines and gold numerals in a black border, and a table of benefactions in Welsh dating to 1787. 


Sources include:
RCAHMW Inventory, Denbighshire, 1914, 148, and Edward Hubbard, 'Buildings of Wales: Clwyd', 1986, p.157.
RCAHMW Wallpaintings database. 2004.09.10/RCAHMW/SLE
Richard Suggett, Painted Temples: Wallpaintings and Rood-screens in Welsh Churches, 1200–1800, (RCAHMW 2021)


RCAHMW 2021