The oldest part of St Melyd's Church, Meliden, the west end, was built in the 1200s and the walls are unusually thick. The font dates to 1175 (re-mounted in the 1930s), which was walled up and hidden during the Reformation. The Domesday Book referees to a Church on the site in 1086, the churchyard is circular which suggests that it was an earlier burial site.
Painted features included a palimpsest of blackletter texts, with English succeeding Welsh, which was destroyed in 1885 and a Royal Arms (no details).
Sources include:
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1885, 207
RCAHMW Wallpaintings database. 2004.09.13/RCAHMW/SLE
Undated notes by A.J. Parkinson. 2004.03.11/RCAHMW/SLE
Source: Richard Suggett, Painted Temples: Wallpaintings and Rood-screens in Welsh Churches, 1200–1800, (RCAHMW 2021), pp. 248.
RCAHMW 2022