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Tref Gwalchmai,) and were probably executed by the same architect, being used for the same purpose in each case. They are flattened in the Tudor form, are 9ft. 11in. wide and 3ft. 10in. in height from the abacus of the piers to the point of intersection; they are of two orders, moulded in slightly depressed hollows, and the most westerly is turned into a continuous curve. The piers are octagonal, 5ft. 8in. high, including the capitals, and 1ft. 9in. wide at the base. font is of a peculiar form, (see plate,) and probably of the fourteenth century; it stands at the western end of the south aisle. No traces of either stoups or piscina remain. The church is pewed; a vestry and bier room have been made in the north aisle, and the roof, in deal, was erected by Mr. Jones, architect, of Chester. The walls of the church are about 3ft. thick and about 10ft. in height to the spring of the gable. There are no monuments in the church but what are of recent date. The shaft of the cross has been removed to the south eastern corner of the church yard, raised on steps, and now serves to support a sun-dial. (Orientation, N. E.: Invocation, St. Beuno; +. VII. Cent.-Fest. Apr. 21.)

Two chapels formerly existed dependent on this church; one called Eglwys y Baili, the other Capel Mair; but they have long since perished, and their sites are unknown.

LLANGRISTIOLUS.—The church of this parish, which is the only mediæval building it contains, consists of a nave and chancel, the former measuring internally 44ft. in length, by 15ft. 6in. in width; and the latter 32ft. in length, by 20ft. in width. The entrance to the nave, which has a single bellgable, is by a doorway of the decorated period under a porch, opposite to which is another doorway in the northern wall, blocked up. Two square-headed windows, of two lights, each trifoliated, and of the decorated period, are in the southern wall of the nave; at the western end stands the font, of the eleventh or twelfth century, (see plate,) and above it is a wooden singing gallery with the following inscription on its front: RICHARDUS DE GREY FECIT 1778. LAUS DEO. The chancel arch is 12ft. wide, and 19ft. from the floor to the intersection; the piers, including capitals and bases, are 10ft. high. The whole is of the early pointed period; both piers and arch being of three orders, moulded at the edges into single bowtells for the arch, and triple bowtells for the piers; the capitals are of the plain bell form without enrichments,

the bases square, with a round edge on a fillet; the workmanship of good character. The chancel contains two square-headed windows on the southern side, of the decorated period, each of two lights, with cinquefoliated circular heads, and wide splays. On the north side are a decorated doorway near the western end, and a square-headed window of two lights, with circular heads, first trifoliated and then subfoliated three and two, making in all six interior cusps. The eastern window is 10ft. 6in. wide at the splay, 10ft. 10in. to the spring of the arch, and 14ft. 2in. to the intersection. It is of the late perpendicular style, and probably replaced a smaller and earlier window; it has five lights, and the head is filled with plain vertical tracery, moulded in two orders, devoid of foliations; a few fragments of stained glass remain. In the southern wall of the chancel, near the altar, is the trace of a piscina under a small arch; and there is a square hole or ambrey in the north wall. The stoups have been removed. The walls of the nave are 14ft. high, and of the chancel 12ft.; both are about 3ft. thick. The old oaken roof of the church, with plain principals and horizontal ties, remains. (Orientation E. N. E. Invocation St. Cristiolus; +. VI. Cent.-Fest. Nov. 3.)

CERRIG CEINWEN. This chapelry contains no mediæval buildings except the church; but not far from it is the house of Hên Blas, of the end of the seventeenth century, the seat of C. Evans, Esq., an interesting example of the Welsh manor house of those days. The church or chapel is a small building of a single aisle 46ft. long by 20ft. wide externally, with a stepped single bell-gable at the western end, on the wall beneath which are some characters faintly visible but not legible. A small decorated doorway under a modern porch leads into the church on the southern side: there are four small modern windows in the walls, and on either side of the altar a narrow single-light trifoliated window of good decorated character. The eastern window, of which a view is given below, is one of the purest models, as to proportion and workmanship, extant in the island, and hardly occurs again in Mona. The font is at the western end; circular, with six richly sculptured compartments, of the twelfth century, 18in. high by as many in diameter. Over the southern doorway is a crossed tombstone, of early date, used as a lintel, of which we append a plate; and in the church yard, on the southern

side, is a holy well, formed naturally in the rock, and once much resorted to as a spring that could cure many diseases. (Orientation N. E. Invocation St. Ceinwen; + V. Cent.Fest. Oct. 8.)

HEN EGLWYS.-In this parish there are no medieval remains, except portions of the parochial church, This edifice was entirely demolished and rebuilt A.D. 1845, on account of its being in such a ruinous condition as no longer to be safe for the performance of Divine service. The rector, the Rev. John Wynne Jones, determined therefore on taking down the old church, and on rebuilding it upon exactly the same site, with the same plan, and in the same style as the original. This has been happily carried into effect; and from the scrupulous ARCHEOL. CAMB. VOL. 1.]

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respect paid to the old building, all the materials of which were employed over again, the result attained has been highly satisfactory. On demolishing the old church, the walls were found to be of such a construction as to excite surprise at their having endured so long; and the timbers of the roof were so utterly decayed as to fall into powder at each touch of the chisel. In restoring this edifice, the quoins, heads, and monials of the old windows have been used over again; a new east window, being a fac-simile of the old one, though rather taller, has been inserted; the pitch of the gable has been heightened, and rendered more consonant to the style of the fourteenth century; buttresses have been added at the angles; and the font, with whatever remains of ancient times occurred, has been preserved and replaced. The interior has been fitted with open benches, and the church, treated in such a judicious manner, may be considered as a decidedly superior edifice to its predecessor.

The name of the church itself would lead to the inference that an older, but perhaps less considerable, building existed here previous to that which dated from the fourteenth century. And the occurrence of some rude sculpture, and of stones bearing zigzag mouldings, as well as the font itself, would point to the apparent date of the first edifice, viz., antecedent to the fourteenth century, and dating, perhaps, from the eleventh. This had no doubt become so dilapidated as to require rebuilding, and it had gained its name Hên Eglwys (the old Church) previous to that period.

This second church, as it stood in 1844, consisted of a single aisle measuring 48ft. long by 19ft. wide internally; the walls were 2ft. 9in. thick, and 11ft. high; though the ground had accumulated so much on the outside as to render this altitude very variable. variable. At the western end was a triple bell-gable, with only one bell mounted; and on the southern side, under a porch, was a doorway, answering to another on the northern side, blocked up. The interior was divided by a plain oaken screen about 19ft. from the eastern end; and the roof was richly ornamented with chamfered principals, moulded brackets, bracket-boards, battlemented purlines, and chamfered rafters. The pulpit stood on the southern side, west of the screen, upon a stone base, not however of one block; and the font (see plate) was at the western end of the church. In the southern side were three square-headed