St. Tecwyn's Churchyard in Llandecwyn, Gwynedd

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Coordinates: 52.91859, -4.03567
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St Tecwyn's was a medieval and later parish church, first recorded 1291, but demolished in the later nineteenth century. Its replacement, the present church, was built immediately to the north in 1880, still within the original churchyard. The later church is a simple early Gothic building consisting of a continuous nave and chancel, with a south porch and western bellcote. Stepped butresses divide it into five bays, each with a single window. Little is known of the earlier church, although its dimensions were similar to those of the present building. Preserved and now protected in the church is an inscribed stone of uncertain date (10th or 11th Century?) that bears a cross and a Latin inscription recordng the Prebyter Tecwyn and Heli the Deacon. The churchyard walls and lychgate pre-date the 1880 rebuilding. The lychgate is thought to be seventeenth or eighteenth century.