Newchurch nr. Kington / Newchurche
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2012 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3197837] [accessed 13 February 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2008 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/909415] [accessed 13 February 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14615NEW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Newchurch, Powys, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Powys
Directions to Site: Located off the B4594, near Bryngwyn, Llanbedr Paincastle and Llandewi Fach, 10-12 km SW of Kington, near the county border with Herefordshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Davids
Historical Region: Hundred of Paincastle -- formerly Radnorshire
Font Location in Church: inside the church
Century and Period: 10th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The entry for this church in COFLEIN [https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/421212/details/st-marys-church-newchurch] [accessed 13 February 2020] notes: "The church is a nineteenth-century building, on the site of an earlier church [...] A special feature is the font, a slightly tapering plain cylindrical monolith which could date variously between the tenth and twelfth centuries." The Radnorshire Churches Survey [http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/radnor/16923.htm] [accessed 8 May 2009] notes: "The only medieval furnishing is a font which on its form could be pre-Conquest." The entry for this church in the Benefice of the Erwood Group [https://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/s626/churches/st-marys-newchurch/] [accessed 13 February 2020] notes: "our font dates from the 10th Century". The Parish web site [http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/swanbrec/s507/newchurch.html] [accessed 8 May 2009] notes: "the font of the 10th or 11th century probably came from an earlier church"
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.1503,
-3.149
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 9′ 1.08″ N,
3° 8′ 56.4″ W
UTM: 30U 489805 5777766
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone