Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
15116
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/11/1994
Date of Amendment
24/11/1994
Name of Property
Churchyard at Manordeifi Old Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Manordeifi
Town
Locality
Easting
222838
Northing
243147
Street Side
Location
Situated around Old Church, some 1.1km of E of Llechryd Bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Churchyard steeply sloping to S of church with numerous memorials of the later C18 and C19, notable for the number of iron railed enclosures, some with exceptionally ornate wrought iron overthrows. Churchyard was cleared of undergrowth and some of the ironwork restored c.1968-73 by the Rev P Evans.
Exterior
Churchyard of Manordeifi Old Church, irregular shape, steeply rising to S Entrance with rubble stone and slate stile at W end. Within churchyard are a number of iron-railed enclosures around family burial plots, mostly with spearhead rails and Cilgerran stone plinths. They are as follows:
1. Attached to W porch: Lewis of Clynfyw enclosure with cut Cilgerran stone plinth, iron railings and urn stanchions, memorial first date 1789.
2. Attached to nave NW angle: Rev J Blackwell (d. 1840), marble cross memorial within (erected 1913), Cilgerran stone plinth, spearhead rails and urn stanchions.
3. Attached to nave N, slate paved enclosure with Cilgerran stone low plinth, iron rails with dog-bars, scrolled spears and urn stanchions. Gate with curved scrolled overthrow. An early C19 wall plaque behind to Anna Thomas of Gellideg (d. 1759).
4. Attached to chancel NW: iron rails and wrought iron overthrow to E entry, squat urn stanchions. Wall memorial to John Williams of Blaenheiny (d. 1781) and Thomas Williams of Plasyberllan (d. 1835).
5. E of chancel: tall iron rails, large urn stanchions and ornate wrought iron scrolled overthrow. Cross within to John Colby of Ffynone (d. 1874).
6. Attached to N of chancel: iron rails and urn stanchions, fine wrought iron overthrow. Wall memorial to Saunders family of Pentre (1750-1806). Another wrought iron overthrow bridges path to link with next item.
7. Iron railed enclosure on slope, slab memorial to David Davies of Pentre (d. 1829) and Saunders-Davies family, the urns on the stanchions similar but cast to rake in line with slope.
8. On churchyard S slope: iron railed enclosure with bulbous cast-iron W gateposts, memorial to John Williams of Plasyberllan (d. 1866).
E of chancel is large stone arch-headed memorial with voussoirs to the arch framing a recess with attached plaque to Lt John Griffith of Vaynor (d. 1797).
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with Old Church, the enclosures are relatively rare survivors as many elsewhere were taken for wartime scrap.
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