Church of St Deiniol
St Deiniols Chapel, Pembrokeshire
Diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids
OS Grid Ref.: SM98210047
Lat/Lng: 51.6666764977,-4.91936166609
Medieval church on a hilltop site near Pembroke.
The dedication of the church to Deiniol is attested in the fifteenth century. The church appears to be that mentioned as a cell occupied by Deiniol according to Dafydd Trefor: Meudwy ydoedd meudwydy | Pen fu ar fraich Penfro fry (He was a hermit in a hermit’s cell | when on Pembroke’s headland on high).The church fell into ruins in the eighteenth century but was restored and was used extensively by the Methodists and then Baptists. It is now disused but the tower still stands.
More information
National Monuments RecordS. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908), 330 View online
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 178
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 460
B.G. Charles, The Place-names of Pembrokeshire (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1992), 724
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 32
Moliant i Ddeiniol , 7–8
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