Llandyssilio / Landisyliau / Llantesilyau

The CPAT Montgomeryshire Churches Survey Project [www.cpat.demon.co.uk] notes: "The present church was built in 1867 on the site of its predecessor within a sub-circular churchyard. The only pre-19thC fittings and furnishings are a stoup, a brass of 1674, a few 18thC wall tablets and a sundial of 1760 in the churchyard [...] The date of Sir Stephen Glynne's visit is unrecorded but it was before the rebuilding recorded below. The modern west tower was mentioned, and also a rather long chancel. The nave roof was at two different levels, a mixture of windows including both Decorated and Perpendicular, a priest's door, and a south porch which appeared to be 16thC. The pulpit and desk were in the chancel and the font appeared 'to be Norman, octagonal in form, with a kind of scalloped ornament on each face, at the base a moulded band'. Such was the church's ruinous condition a few decades later that it was demolished; a petition was presented in 1863, and a new church built to the plans of G.E.Street in 1867."