St Nidan's Church, Llanidan
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St Nidan's Church, Llanidan is a 19th-century parish church near the village of Brynsiencyn, in Anglesey, north Wales. Built between 1839 and 1843, it replaced the Old Church of St Nidan, Llanidan, which needed significant repair, providing a place of Anglican worship nearer to the village than the old church. Some items were moved here from the old church, including the 13th-century font, two bells from the 14th and 15th century, and a reliquary thought to hold the remains of St Nidan. The tower at the west end has been described as "top heavy" and looking like "a water tower".[2]
St Nidan's Church, Llanidan | |
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Location in Anglesey | |
53.182180°N 4.262597°W / 53.182180; -4.262597 | |
OS grid reference | SH 489 674 |
Location | Brynsiencyn, Anglesey |
Country | Wales, United Kingdom |
Denomination | Church in Wales |
History | |
Status | Church |
Founded | 1839–1843 |
Dedication | Nidan |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Heritage designation | Grade II |
Designated | 30 January 1968 |
Architect(s) | John Welch |
Style | Gothic revival |
Specifications | |
Materials | Red gritstone dressed with sandstone |
Administration | |
Province | Province of Wales |
Diocese | Diocese of Bangor |
Archdeaconry | Bangor |
Deanery | Tindaethwy and Menai |
Parish | Newborough with Llanidan with Llangeinwen and Llanfair-yn-y-Cymwd |
Clergy | |
Priest in charge | E. Roberts[1] |
The church is still used for worship by the Church in Wales, one of five in a group of parishes in the south of Anglesey. It is a Grade II listed building, a national designation given to "buildings of special interest, which warrant every effort being made to preserve them",[3] in particular because it is regarded as "a distinctive example of pre-archaeological gothic revival work."[4] The 19th-century clergyman and antiquarian Harry Longueville Jones said that it had been built in a "debased barbarous style, showing neither architectural science nor taste".[5]