St Deinst, Llangarron
St Deinst, Llangarron
St Deinst is a Grade I parish church in Llangarron, south Herefordshire, in the Diocese of Hereford and the Borders Group of Parishes. It is the only church in England dedicated to the Celtic saint Deiniol (Deinst).
- Location
- Llangarron, Herefordshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Herefordshire
- City / town
- Llangarron
- Address
- Llangarron, Herefordshire, HR9 6NJ
- Postcode
- HR9 6NJ
- Built
- 14th century; south porch 15th century; north aisle 1841
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Deinst
- Diocese
- Hereford
- Parish
- Llangarron
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Decorated and Perpendicular
- Materials
- Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SO 530 211
- Opening hours
- Open 9am to 5pm daily.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England records a fourteenth-century church with a west tower, nave and chancel, a fifteenth-century south porch, and a north aisle dated 1841. Fabric is coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The three-stage west tower has a recessed octagonal spire and a south stair turret. The chancel retains a fourteenth-century scissor-braced roof; the nave roof is nineteenth-century. A buttress at the chancel arch incorporates masonry with traces of Norman interlace. Fittings include a fourteenth-century octagonal font and a wooden pulpit of about 1680. Seventeenth-century communion rails with turned balusters have been reused as a screen.
The parish history identifies Deinst with St Deiniol, abbot-bishop of Bangor, who died in 584; tradition holds that he founded a church here. The top of the spire was replaced in the twentieth century and the old stone now serves as a sundial south-west of the tower. The churchyard holds an unusually large number of Grade II listed memorials.