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.

Saints linked to this site

More information

National Monuments Record

S. 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

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