Efenechtyd

Efenechtyd (Welsh: Efenechdyd) is a hamlet and community in a deep valley in Denbighshire, Wales which contains the Church of St Michael and All Angels. Efenechtyd is also the name of an electoral ward. the community includes the village of Pwllglas.

Efenechtyd

St Michael and All Angels
Efenechtyd
Location within Denbighshire
Population655 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSJ115555
Community
  • Efenechtyd
Principal area
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townRUTHIN
Postcode districtLL15
Dialling code01824
PoliceNorth Wales
FireNorth Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
  • Clwyd West

Governance

The Efenechtyd electoral ward elects a county councillor to site on Denbighshire County Council.[2] This ward stretches to the south-west of Efenechtyd with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 1,686,[3] the community population being 655.

Church of St Michael and All Angels

St Michael’s is the tiny church of Efenechtyd. At twenty feet wide, St Michael’s is the second smallest church in the diocese of St Asaph.[4]

The circular churchyard suggests Celtic origins. The church may have been founded by monks from St Saeran’s at Llanynys and probably dates from the 13th century. The east window probably dates from c. 1400.[4]

The church's most notable feature is its rare medieval wooden font, probably of 15th or 16th-century origin, similar to the stone fonts fashionable at that time. It is made from a single circular oak block with fourteen facets over a ring of beading. Similarly the battlemented rail near the altar is also late medieval and part of a rood screen.[4] Another notable feature includes a fragment of a Welsh wall-painted Ten Commandments, probably Elizabethan or Jacobean. Monuments include a painted timber memorial to Catherine Lloyd (1810) and a Georgian monument to Joseph Conway of Plas-yn-Llan, near the churchyard gate.[4]

The church was extensively restored in 1873.

The rounded stone by the font is the ‘Maen Camp’, formerly used at the local ‘campau’ (‘Sports’) on St. Michael’s Day, 29 September. Village Samsons strove to hurl it backwards over their heads.[5]

The custom of throwing the Feat Stone has been revived in recent years and takes place at the Harvest Festival celebrations.[6]

  • Church of St Michael and All Angels
  • Font, carved from one piece of wood
  • Carved roode and pulpit
  • Roof beams
  • Back of church
gollark: Ah, but my sound is off constantly.
gollark: I did not. Does it work in Firefox™?
gollark: ... was? is.
gollark: Well, this was for ND research, and I didn't want to refresh random eggs constantly.
gollark: ```javascript// ==UserScript==// @name DC Egg Time Getter// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/// @match https://dragcave.net/view/*// @grant none// ==/UserScript==function getCapture(text, regex, def) { const result = text.match(regex); if (result === null || result === undefined) { if (def === undefined) { throw new Error("Text did not match regex."); } else { return def; } } else { return result[1]; }}const text = document.body.textContent;const days = parseInt(getCapture(text, /in: (\d+) day/, 0));const hours = parseInt(getCapture(text, /and (\d+) hour/, 0));const allHours = (days * 24) + hours;const storage = window.localStorage;const lastTime = storage.remainingTime;console.log("Time Remaining:", allHours);// check for low-ER timesif (allHours < 72) { console.log("Egg/Hatchling in low ER!"); if (lastTime !== allHours.toString()) { const d = new Date(); localStorage.changeTime = d.getTime().toString(); console.log("WAS", lastTime, "NOW", allHours) console.log("Hour Change Time FOUND!"); } else { storage.remainingTime = allHours; setTimeout(() => window.location.reload(), 2000); }}```Probably suboptimal, but I was in a hurry.

References
  1. "Community Population 2011". Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  2. Gareth Joy (5 May 2017) Election 2017: Denbighshire Council results, Point FM. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  3. "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  4. Site 4 - Efenechtyd - Church of St Michael and All Angels, Medieval-Wales.com. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  5. Dr Charles Kightly. Enjoy Medieval Denbighshire. Denbighshire County Council.
  6. |accessdate=2013-11-31], Maen Camp 2013

Living Paths

As of 28 April 2011, this article is derived in whole or in part from medieval-wales.com/index.php. The copyright holder has licensed the content in a manner that permits reuse under CC BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL. All relevant terms must be followed. The original text was at "Efenechtyd"

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.