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Dist:0.4km<br/>Prosaic surroundings for this impressive bird.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Recte Y Faenor. A large farm on the banks of the Teifi in the parish of Manordeifi.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>The farm stands above a bend in the Afon Teifi; across the valley, the houses stand near the A484 between Llechryd and Cenarth.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>In a dell where Nant Sidan enters the river Teifi, in the parish of Manordeifi.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>This massive monument east of the church, crowned with a huge busby of ivy, is in memory of Lieutenant Griffith of the Marines, son of David Griffith of Vaynor, nonconformist minister; he died in 1793 aged 34.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>The churchyard is steeply sloped and the upper level remains a wilderness with old graves lurking in a shadowy thicket beneath beech trees which have carried on growing through the years of neglect, their heavy branches sweeping down to the ground in places.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>Looking west from the south side of the church the Celtic cross within the railed enclosure, left, marks the grave of John Blackwell (1797-1840) who took the bardic name Alun. Straight ahead, just outside the gate, is a building that once provided stabling for horses belonging to members of the congregation who rode or drove to church. It has been converted into a private house.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>In an alcove beside the entrance to the church, with the porch extended to shelter it, the gravestone is enclosed in a wooden structure. Members of the gentry family of Lewis, of Clynfiew, are buried here, with Welsh poppies adding some colour.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>Just a knotted cord hanging down from a hole in the ceiling by the entrance, and running up directly to the bellcote above.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>The altar is positioned on a three-sided slate platform; the wooden rails are thought to be of local C19 workmanship, otherwise the chancel is stark and austere, and illuminated by a plain glass window.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>Lowry and William Hughes of Llechryd: he was the Wesleyan Methodist minister in the first half of the C19 when presumably the local nonconformists did not possess a burial ground.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>Beautifully-carved C18 memorial tablet to an unfortunate Georgian teenager. Gellideg lies a few miles to the southeast, overlooking the Afon Cych. The tablet is on the south exterior wall of the church, in an excellent state of preservation.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>An elaborate alabaster bas-relief memorial in Manordeifi church commemorates the death in 1852 of Capt. Charles Colby, of Fynnone, who was mauled by a tiger at Rawil Pinde [sic] while serving with the 98th Regiment, and died from his wounds. The fate of the tiger is not recorded.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>The Norman font (C12 or 13) is the oldest feature of this old church.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>Both sides of the nave are filled with box pews reserved for local families and made by their own craftsmen to slightly different designs. The two higher ones on either side of the entrance arch are adorned with fluted columns and belonged to the Ffynnonau family. The enclosed pews would have helped to restrict draughts around the worshippers legs in the unheated church. There are small candleholders atop the partitions.
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