Church of St Decumanus
Rhoscrowther, Pembrokeshire
Diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids
OS Grid Ref.: SM90400220
Lat/Lng: 51.6793497591,-5.03316846033
Former church, now in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches. Dedicated to Decumanus, Degman or Dagman.
The church, with its dedication, can be identified as one of the 'Seven Bishop Houses of Dyfed' named in an early legal tract. That document belongs to the eleventh century or earlier, although the manuscripts that contain it are twelfth century and later. The dedication to Degman is specifically attested in 1352, and other forms of the name are attested.More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
B.G. Charles, The Place-names of Pembrokeshire (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1992), 712
T.M. Charles-Edwards, Wales and the Britons 350–1064 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 596–7
W.D. Caröe, 'The Church of S. Decuman, Rhoscrowther' in Archaeologia Cambrensis (1915)
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 178
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 458
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 32
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