St Tegfedd, Llandegfedd
St Tegfedd, Llandegfedd
St Tegfedd's is a Grade II Church in Wales parish church in the centre of Llandegfedd, Monmouthshire, in the Diocese of Monmouth.
- Location
- Llandegfedd, Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- County
- Monmouthshire
- City / town
- Llandegfedd
- Address
- Church Road, Llandegfedd, Monmouthshire, NP18 1JA
- Postcode
- NP18 1JA
- Built
- C12 or early C13 form; largely rebuilt 1875–6
- Architect
- E A Lansdowne (1875–6)
- Denomination
- Church in Wales
- Dedication
- Tegfedd
- Diocese
- Monmouth
- Parish
- Llandegfedd
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Norman and Early English, Victorian rebuild
- Opening hours
- The door is usually open. If locked, it can be opened by arrangement with the churchwardens. Contact details are in the porch of the church.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
- Website
- https://homma.org/
Overview
Cadw records a church whose form is twelfth- or early thirteenth-century, with reused lancet windows of that date. An inscription on the chancel arch states that the church, supposed to have been built between 1150 and 1250, was rebuilt on the old lines by voluntary contribution in 1875–6, replacing the ancient door and windows in the new walls. The east wall and window, of later date, were not rebuilt then. The 1875–6 work was by E A Lansdowne for John James of Lansor. Surviving details also point to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century work.
The dedication is to St Tegfedd; the place was once called Merthyr Tegfedd. The church stands in an oval embanked churchyard. Cadw includes it as a church almost wholly of 1875–6 that retains earlier features and a well-preserved character.