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Parish Church of:
Advent
Anciently called "St Adwen" and "St Tathen". The church
of St Adwen, or Athwennais an edifice of stone in the Early
English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel,
nave of four bays, south aisles extending for the whole
length of the nave and chancel, north transept, south porch
and an embattled western tower with eight pyramidal capped
pinnacles, and containing four bells, of which the first
three are plain; the tenor, dated 1831, was cast at Oxford
and weighs 5 cwt: the chancel is extended for half a bay
into the nave, and is inclosed by screens: in the south wall
is a small piscina, and on the north side are the roof-loft
stairs and a large and curious hagiscope; the north
transept: Early English, has been entirely rebuilt, the old
windows being replaced; there was formerly a corresponding
transept or chapel on the south side, which remained till
about 1870, when, the roof having been destroyed by a fall
of snow, the entrance arch was built up and the east window
of this chapel placed in it; the font of Norman date,
consists of a cylindrical basin, expanding towards the top,
on an octagonal shaft with bold mouldings, rising from a
square base: in the church are memorials to Elizabeth
Bennett, ob. Sept 1643; William Michel, o. 1650 and Agnes
his wife, ob. 1685, and their family; in the churchyard is a
broken slab inscribed to Anthony Wade, ob. 1667: the church
was rebuilt in 1847-8 for a sum of £1,700, and restored at a
cost of £365 in 1873-5, when the bells were re-hung at a
cost of £60, there are 200 sittings. The register of
baptisms dates from the year 1709; marriages 1731; burials
1871.
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