St David’s, Llanddewi Fach

 

For many years now I have been trying to visit all the churches on a website called Builth Churches as a tribute to the person who made it Phil Jones. I had been in contact with Phil  via email many times over photos I had posted. After he passed away I discovered his website while looking for churches to visit in Wales. I found I had visited a lot of them so my quest to visit them all started. If you look at the link you will find some of the churches in black, these are ones he never got around to visiting or posting to his website. This was one of them. There is no history on the church I could find on Wikipediea and the best I could find was on the CPAT website  so rather that me cutting and pasting like I do with Wiki I would suggest you click on the link fro more info. I might add finding this church has eluded me for a while I use OS mapping to find the place I want and Llanddewi Fach does not show up in Powes. After using Google maps as well I finally located the church on a hillside in the middle of nowhere

It does not look far in this photo

 

But when you look from the gate it's a good bit further, the nearest house is to my left 

 

 

Looking over the churchyard wall

 

Inside the churchyard looking west
 

 

The north side is  just access, to the left is the hillside

 

 

The east end
 

 

Looking to the west end, not photo looking at it because no room

The churchyard to the south of the church

 

Headstones at the south west end hidden by the shade of the trees

 

Looking back east

The headstones here are right on the edge of the churchyard

 

 

Taken with my iphone

 

This is right at the end of the west end, to the right are a few graves and a lot of undergrowth
 

 

Old but still standing

 

The only tall monument in the churchyard

 

East again

This is to show the huge yew tree that shades everything by the church

Collage of some of the tombs in the churchyard

The porch which is almost hidden by the yew behind me

Inside looks a typical country church

The chancel arch

Through the arch to the altar

Altar and east window

Looking back through the church

Pulpit along with lectern

From the pulpit looking down on the pews

Collage of items in the church

In the church you might notice it is lit by candles, I did find a light switch but I think it was for the porch, not even sure the light worked

Collage showing the Clerics Trail and there is A4 paper with some of Kilverts book typed up on them. The picture to the bottom right shows the church with no trees around it shading it like it is now

There are a couple of memorials you can find

The font with is most likely Victorian

The nave from the chancel

Oil lamp and candles light the church

 

I will leave you there with a photo of the flowers behind the altar, I might add they are artificial 

Till next time I wish you all a wonderful weekend