Church_of_St_Andrew,_Tredunnock

St Andrew's Church, Tredunnock

St Andrew's Church, Tredunnock

Church in Monmouthshire, Wales

The Church of St Andrew, Tredunnock, Monmouthshire is a parish church with its origins in the 12th or 13th century. A Grade II* listed building, the church remains an active parish church.

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History

Two lancet windows in the chancel may be Norman, giving a foundation in the 12th century[1] but the earliest recorded mention of the church is from the mid-13th century.[1] Most of the current structure dates from the 15th or 16th centuries, including the porch. The font and the top of the tower are 17th century.[1]

An extensive restoration of the church took place in the early 20th century. The architect was Arthur Grove and a Portland stone tablet by Eric Gill, dated 1910, records the restoration.[1] The Monmouthshire author and artist Fred Hando recorded that the churchyard held the grave of Eleanor Isabella Gill, only child of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer.[2]

Architecture and description

The church is constructed of Old Red Sandstone and the style is Perpendicular.[1] The interior contains a Roman grave-slab, described by the architectural historian John Newman as, "splendidly lettered and well-preserved".[3] It commemorates Julius Julianus, a soldier with the Second Augustan Legion based at Isca Augusta, now Caerleon.[3] The porch contains an early tablet by Eric Gill.[3] In his Journeys in Gwent, published in 1951, Hando recalled that, "For half a millennium the country-folk of Tredunnock have worshipped in their lovely brown church". St Andrew's is a Grade II* listed building, its listing recording it as "a very attractive and well preserved medieval church".[1]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Cadw. "Church of St Andrew, Tredunnock (Grade II*) (2689)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  2. [2]
    Hando 1951, pp. 30–31.
  3. [3]
    Newman 2000, p. 572.

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