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Efenechtyd
Efenechtyd
	St Michael and All Angels
	Efenechtyd Location within Denbighshire
Population	655 (2011)
OS grid reference	SJ115555
Community	Efenechtyd;
Principal area	Denbighshire;
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	RUTHIN
Postcode district	LL15
Dialling code	01824
Police	North Wales
Fire	North Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Clwyd West;
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Clwyd West;
	List of places UK Wales Denbighshire 53°05′28″N 3°19′41″W / 53.091°N 3.328°W

Efenechtyd (Welsh: Efenechdyd) 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 ward.

Governance

The Efenechtyd electoral ward elects a county councillor to site on Denbighshire County Council.^[2] This ward stretches to the south-west of Efenechtyd with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 1,686,^[3] 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 diocese of St Asaph.^[4]

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.^[4]

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.^[4] 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.^[4]

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.^[5]

The custom of throwing the Feat Stone has been revived in recent years and takes place at the Harvest Festival celebrations.^[6]

Church of St Michael and All Angels
Font, carved from one piece of wood
Carved roode and pulpit
Roof beams
Back of church

References

^ "Community Population 2011". Retrieved 23 May 2015.
^ Gareth Joy (5 May 2017) Election 2017: Denbighshire Council results, Point FM. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 23 May 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Site 4 - Efenechtyd - Church of St Michael and All Angels, Medieval-Wales.com. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
^ Dr Charles Kightly. Enjoy Medieval Denbighshire. Denbighshire County Council.
^ [1]|accessdate=2013-11-31], Maen Camp 2013

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