The Church of St Dogfael,

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, Wales is a redundant church dating from the 19th century. A

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, the church is now in the care of the

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History and description

The church is dedicated to St Dogfael, and was built between 1864 and 1865. The architect was

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and the patron Sir Thomas Lloyd. Lloyd, a landowner and

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for

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, claimed descent from the ancient Lords of Cemaes and spent a considerable amount of his inheritance in pursuit of a peerage and in the construction of a number of buildings on his estate in a

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style, including his home,

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, the court house at

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, the restoration of the genuinely medieval castle at Newport and the little church of St Dogfael. The church is small and simple. Lloyd, Orbach and Scourfield, in their ''Pembrokeshire'' volume of the ''Buildings of Wales''

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, describe it as "an object lesson in High Victorian geometry and minimal extraneous detail". It is built of

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, with

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dressings and a

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roof. Constructed on the site of an earlier church, the north doorway may a genuine Norman piece, or a later medieval one, from the original structure. The church is a

and, having been declared redundant, is now in the care of the charity, the

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Sources

* {{cite book , first1=Thomas, last1=Lloyd, first2=Julian, last2=Orbach, first3=Robert, last3=Scourfield , title=Pembrokeshire , series=The Buildings of Wales , date=2004 , publisher=

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, location=New Haven, US and London , isbn=0300101783 , oclc=978065767 , url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/978065767

Churches preserved by the Friends of Friendless Churches Former churches in Wales