1878 - Llanychaiarn Church, Rhydyfelin, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, UK
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Ddraig Ddu
N 52° 00.000 W 004° 00.000
30U E 431350 N 5761510
Llanychaiarn Church is a rebuilt church constructed in 1878, serving a small population of around 600 in a village a mile south of Aberystwyth.
Waymark Code: WMHRTH
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/10/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1
Views: 1

Llanychaiarn Church is a rebuilt church constructed in 1878, serving a small population of around 600 in a village a mile south of Aberystwyth.

"LLANYCHAIARN (LLAN - LLWCHAIARN), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of ILAR county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 1 Mile (S.) from Aberystwith, containing 688 inhabitants.

This parish is bounded on the west by the bay of Cardigan, and on the north and east by the river Ystwith; and the road from Aberystwith to Cardigan passes through it from north to south, crossing the Ystwith by a romantic bridge, from which there is a fine view up its vale, with the remains of the ancient fortress of Llanychaiarn castle in the foreground"

[From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]

The dated stone reads:=

REBUILT AND ENLARGED
MDCCCLXXVIII (1878)
Year of construction: 1878

Full inscription:
The dated stone reads:= REBUILT AND ENLARGED MDCCCLXXVIII (1878)


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