Historic churches · North Wales
St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo
Also known as: Eglwys y Santes Wenllwyfo
St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo — church in Anglesey, UK.

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- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
- Free entry
About
St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo is a historic church in the United Kingdom. Built in the Gothic Revival style. Heritage designation: Grade II* listed building. Affiliated with Anglicanism. Wikidata describes it as: "church in Anglesey, UK". Coordinates: 53.3788°, -4.2908°.
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St Gwenllwyfo's Church is a 19th-century parish church near the village of Dulas, in Anglesey, Wales. It was built between 1854 and 1856 to replace an earlier church in the parish, also dedicated to St Gwenllwyfo, which needed repair and had become too small for its congregation. The new church was built nearer to the Llys Dulas estate, whose owner contributed £936 towards the total cost of £1,417, rather than near the area where many of the parishioners lived. In 1876, Sir Arundell Neave (who had married into the family that owned Llys Dulas) donated 27 panels of 15th and 16th-century stained glass that had once belonged to a Flemish monastery. The church is still used for worship by the Church in Wales, one of four in the parish of Amlwch.
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From the Wikipedia article
St Gwenllwyfo's Church is a 19th-century parish church near the village of Dulas, in Anglesey, Wales. It was built between 1854 and 1856 to replace an earlier church in the parish, also dedicated to St Gwenllwyfo, which needed repair and had become too small for its congregation. The new church was built nearer to the Llys Dulas estate, whose owner contributed £936 towards the total cost of £1,417, rather than near the area where many of the parishioners lived. In 1876, Sir Arundell Neave (who had married into the family that owned Llys Dulas) donated 27 panels of 15th and 16th-century stained glass that had once belonged to a Flemish monastery. The church is still used for worship by the Church in Wales, one of four in the parish of Amlwch. It is a Grade II* listed building, a national designation given to "particularly important buildings of more than special interest", in particular because of its "fine collection" of stained glass.
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Background
History
St Gwenllwyfo's Church stands in a churchyard on a sloping site on the west side of a rural road, about 0.5 mi from the beach at Dulas, in the north-east of Anglesey, Wales.|group="n"}} to replace its medieval predecessor, which was then abandoned. was in need of repair and its congregation was too large for the building. Although many in the congregation lived in Nebo (in the north of the parish), it was decided to build the new church about two-thirds of a mile from its predecessor (about 1.1 km) to the south-west in the vicinity of the Llys Dulas estate, whose owners had long been connected with the church. The largest donation towards the new parish church (£936){{#tag:ref|£936 in 1854…
Architecture
The church, designed in the Gothic Revival style, is built from rubble masonry dressed with gritstone, and has a slate roof. There is a three-stage tower with buttresses at the base at the west end of the building, topped with a spire. The tower has one window in the west wall in the lowest stage, narrow windows on three sides in the middle stage, and pairs of windows topped with hoodmoulds around the tower in the section below the spire. The 18th-century bell comes from the old church. St Gwenllwyfo's is entered through a porch on the south side near the west end; an internal doorway at the west end of the nave leads into the vestry in the tower. The nave has four bays (internal sections)…
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- Coordinates
- 53.3788, -4.2908
- District
- Isle of Anglesey
- Parish
- Llaneilian
- Postcode
- LL70 9LZ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Ynys Môn
- Established
- 1856
Sources
- wikidata: Q7593305 (CC0)
- wikipedia: St Gwenllwyfo's Church (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Llanwenllwyfo Church - geograph.org.uk - 232117.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo?
- St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo is in North Wales, United Kingdom (postcode LL70 9LZ), in the parish of Llaneilian.
- When was St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo built?
- Built or established in 1856.
- Is St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo a listed building?
- St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo is officially recognised as Grade II* listed building listed.
- Is St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo free to visit?
- Yes, St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo is free to enter.
- How do I get to St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode LL70 9LZ. It sits within the Ynys Môn parliamentary constituency.