St Mary's Church, Maestir
St Mary's Church, Maestir, is one of the Church in Wales churches belonging to the United Benefice of Lampeter. It stands two miles north-west of the university town of Lampeter on what was once the Falcondale Estate.
History
[edit]St Mary's Church was built in 1880 as an estate church for John Battersby Harford of Falcondale, ancestor of the Harford Baronets.[1] The church also served as a chapel of ease for St Peter's Church, Lampeter.[2] It contains a twelfth-century square-bowled font featuring carvings of the Four Evangelists that is originally from nearby Lampeter Church.[2] It is one of a number of twelfth-century fonts - including those at Llanwenog and Llanfair Clydogau - that are distinctively Celtic Romanesque in style.
Description
[edit]St Mary's is a small church, consisting of a nave and round apse, north-east vestry, west bellcote, and south porch. It has been described as "minimally Romanesque."[1] In the apse are three windows made by Charles Eamer Kempe, dating to 1906.[3] They depict the Virgin and Child, Saint Luke, and Saint John, and were installed in memory of Blanche, the wife of John Charles Harford of Falcondale.
Services
[edit]Today, St Mary's has a service on the second Sunday of each month.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Lloyd, Thomas. (2006). Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. Orbach, Julian., Scourfield, Robert. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10179-1. OCLC 71164002.
- ^ a b "St Mary's Church, Maestir, Lampeter (310150)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ^ "Works at Church of St Mary, Maestir, Ceredigion in Stained Glass in Wales". stainedglass.llgc.org.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2020.