Dinham Castle

Kelly's directory for Monmouthshire for 1901 notes: "There was formerly a church at Dinham, some traces of which may be seen at the gable end of one of the farm, buildings belonging to Great Dinham farm. The font is used as a pump-trough in the farm yard and the lid of a stone coffin, locally known as "The Bishop's Stone," is built into the, garden wall. The church has been long abandoned and the parish is now united for ecclesiastical purposes to that of Llanvair-Discoed". A text by Octavius Morgan and Thomas Wakeman, "Notes on the Ecclesiatical Remains at Runston" printed in Newport, 1856, reported that a "part of the baptismal font has long been used as a trough for the pump" at Dinham Castle, near Caerwent, In Monmouthshire. [source: www.castlewales.com]