Efenechtyd
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| country | Wales |
| static_image_name | Sant Mihangel a'r Holl Angylion, Efenechtyd, Sir Ddinbych 01.JPG |
| static_image_caption | St Michael and All Angels |
| coordinates | |
| official_name | Efenechtyd |
| population | 655 |
| population_ref | (2011) |
| community_wales | Efenechtyd |
| unitary_wales | Denbighshire |
| constituency_welsh_assembly | Clwyd West |
| constituency_westminster | Clwyd West |
| post_town | RUTHIN |
| postcode_district | LL15 |
| postcode_area | LL |
| dial_code | 01824 |
| os_grid_reference | SJ115555 |
| welsh_name | Efenechdyd |
| module | [[File:Wales Denbighshire Community Efenechtyd map.svg |
| Map of the community | |
| :: |
| country = Wales | static_image_name = Sant Mihangel a'r Holl Angylion, Efenechtyd, Sir Ddinbych 01.JPG | static_image_caption = St Michael and All Angels | coordinates = | official_name = Efenechtyd | population = 655 | population_ref = (2011) | community_wales = Efenechtyd | unitary_wales = Denbighshire | lieutenancy_wales = | constituency_welsh_assembly = Clwyd West | constituency_westminster = Clwyd West | post_town = RUTHIN | postcode_district = LL15 | postcode_area = LL | dial_code = 01824 | os_grid_reference = SJ115555 | welsh_name = Efenechdyd | module= [[File:Wales Denbighshire Community Efenechtyd map.svg|240px]] Map of the community
Efenechtyd () is a hamlet and community in a deep valley in Denbighshire, Wales which contains the Church of St Michael and All Angels. The community includes the village of Pwllglas. Efenechtyd is also the name of an electoral division.
Governance
The Efenechtyd electoral division elects a county councillor to Denbighshire County Council. This ward stretches to the south-west of Efenechtyd with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 1,686, the community population being 655.
Church of St Michael and All Angels
St Michael's is the tiny church of Efenechtyd. At twenty feet wide, St Michael's is the second smallest church in the Church in Wales diocese of St Asaph.
The circular churchyard suggests Celtic origins. The church may have been founded by monks from St Saeran's at Llanynys and probably dates from the 13th century. The east window probably dates from c. 1400.
The church's most notable feature is its rare medieval wooden font, probably of 15th- or 16th-century origin, similar to the stone fonts fashionable at that time. It is made from a single circular oak block with fourteen facets over a ring of beading. Similarly the battlemented rail near the altar is also late medieval and part of a rood screen. Another notable feature includes a fragment of a Welsh wall-painted Ten Commandments, probably Elizabethan or Jacobean. Monuments include a painted timber memorial to Catherine Lloyd (1810) and a Georgian monument to Joseph Conway of Plas-yn-Llan, near the churchyard gate.
The church was extensively restored in 1873.
The rounded stone by the font is the ‘Maen Camp’, formerly used at the local ‘campau’ (‘Sports’) on St. Michael's Day, 29 September. Village Samsons strove to hurl it backwards over their heads. The custom of throwing the Feat Stone has been revived in recent years and takes place at the Harvest Festival celebrations.
Wooden font, Efenechtyd church - geograph.org.uk - 573404.jpg|Font, carved from one piece of wood Sant Mihangel a'r Holl Angylion, Efenechtyd, Sir Ddinbych 06.JPG|Interior, looking towards the altar Sant Mihangel a'r Holl Angylion, Efenechtyd, Sir Ddinbych 14.JPG|Carved rood and pulpit Sant Mihangel a'r Holl Angylion, Efenechtyd, Sir Ddinbych 24.JPG|Roof beams Sant Mihangel a'r Holl Angylion, Efenechtyd, Sir Ddinbych 30.JPG|Back of church
References
References
- "Community Population 2011".
- Gareth Joy (5 May 2017) [http://www.pointfm.co.uk/election-2017-denbighshire-council-results/ Election 2017: Denbighshire Council results] {{Webarchive. link. (30 March 2018 , ''[[Point FM]]''. Retrieved 29 March 2018.)
- "Ward population 2011".
- [http://medieval-wales.com/site_04_efenechtyd.php Site 4 - Efenechtyd - Church of St Michael and All Angels] {{Webarchive. link. (30 March 2018 , Medieval-Wales.com. Retrieved 29 March 2018.)
- Dr Charles Kightly. "Enjoy Medieval Denbighshire". Denbighshire County Council.
- [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1426224384258889.1073741838.1413151462232848&type=3]|accessdate=2013-11-31], Maen Camp 2013
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