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LLANSANTFFRAID-YN-MECHAIN CHURCH.

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the jubilee of George the Third's accession, and it is worth mentioning that the kid was taken out of a herd of goats that were depasturing on the side of the Ffridd. We give an engraving of the present elevation of the church, and another of its ground-plan. It consists of a nave, which has evidently been lengthened, and a transept, on the north side, of comparatively recent erection. From a break in the north wall, and the jointing exposed on the south wall, about sixty feet from the east wall, we should judge that the original structure of the church there terminated. The east window in the chancel is an obtuse pointed arch window of three lights. On either side of the chancel are narrow single-light windows, ogee shaped, with a square head. In the south wall, to the west of the present pulpit, is another small and narrow pointed arch window. In the south wall there is a blocked-up doorway, being an obtuse angle-pointed arch, corresponding with the east windows; and in the south wall of the chancel is an ancient piscina, in good preservation. It is within a recess of half a pointed arch (see engraving), and some traces are to be seen, which indicate that within the recess, (which, when complete, was a perfect arch), there existed another basin, forming a double piscina, which is rare. The three windows, and the doorway above described, are late Early English, or of the period of the transition of that style to the Decorated, and indicate that the ancient part of the church was built in the latter end of the thirteenth century. It was of the type common throughout Wales, single nave, and unbroken roof line, with the chancel divided from the nave by an oaken rood-loft, and screen." Although there is no remnant of the latter now left, it is certain they existed up to the year 1727, when they were ordered to be removed, and the addition of the north transept was made.

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We cannot readily trace any change having been made until the seventeenth century, when extensive alterations took place; the church was lengthened

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