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Dist:0.3km<br/>Tiny gem of a Georgian church, disused but preserved by The Friends of Friendless Churches. It's easily missed in its peaceful seclusion but well worth tracking down.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>St Andrew's Bayvil is breath-taking in its simplicity. Restored with great care after its closure in 1983, little has changed since the early 1800's: the high, painted wooden pulpit with sounding board above, coffin bier standing at the ready below, the altar a mere table, box-pews completely unadorned. The plain wooden roof is from a later date but the whitewashed walls and the solid slate floors are decidedly pre-Victorian.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The Preseli mountain range to the south.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The plain, painted wood pulpit has three levels and for maximum effect, a sounding board above.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>It is a reminder of the pre-eminence of the preacher in the early C18 that the seating in the first two box pews is orientated towards the pulpit not the altar. The church can never have accommodated many but situated as it is in the sparsely populated upland coastal belt between Nevern and Moylegrove, this is hardly surprising.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Alternative access to the churchyard at Bayvil, beside the entrance gate.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Enter here and find yourself in a tiny box-like disused church of breathaking simplicity, or turn around and look out towards the sea in Newport Bay to the southwest; or study the stones of the porch to find C19 graffiti!
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Square type, dated late C12,
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Stones on both sides of the porch entrance have initials scratched into them: some here dated 1846 and others early 1900's.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>The door of the church opens towards this glimpse of Newport Bay to the east. In the summer the churchyard almost disappears under bracken.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>In garden next to Bayvil church.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>No sign of the footpath (to Bayvil church) marked on the OS map as passing through here: maybe obliterated by the huge new sheds to the left.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>A contrast to the more usual red. This is Coedfryn near Nanhyfer/Nevern.
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Dist:1.0km west<br/>Farm with a large Holstein dairy herd which presumably spends the winter under cover eating maize.
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