All Saint's Church, Kemeys Inferior

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Awdurdod Unedol (Lleol)Casnewydd
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The church consists of a nave, with west bell-turret and south porch, north aisle and chancel.  It is of long-wall entry and was possibly built in a mixture of Gothic Perpendicular and Decorated styles. A blocked arch in the west wall was considered to be Norman. The church was demolished to within 1.0m of the ground in 1960-62.

A cross head from the church can be related to a possible cross to the south, although the site is now covered by the A49T embankment. Wall paintings recorded at the church include a painted rood figure discovered in 1850.

Sources Include:

s495card; ST39SE33.

RCAHMW AP945149/60

Richard Suggett, Painted Temples: Wallpaintings and Rood-screens in Welsh Churches, 1200–1800, (RCAHMW 2021), pp. 78–9, 223.

 

RCAHMW 2021