This cache is at an isolated church near the village of Nantgaredig. This church is within the parish of Abergwili. Going up a small country road, this church wouldn't generally be discovered by accident at this location.
The nave and chancel are of medieval origin and the tower is post-medieval, but the detail belongs mainly to a restoration of 1906, as do the internal fixtures.
The nave has a plastered wagon roof, tall plain plastered tower arch and similarly plain but chamfered chancel arch. The chancel has a polygonal boarded wagon roof. A pointed ribbed door leads to the vestry.
There is a painted octagonal font. Plain pews have moulded ends and choir stalls have poppy heads. Simple wooden communion rail. There are 2 wall tablets. In the chancel N wall is a memorial to Daniel Davies (d 1828) comprising a marble sarcophagus on slate background. The chancel south wall has a memorial to the Rev Thomas Thomas (d 1926), a simple classical tablet on a slate background, by A M Lewis.
The exterior is a small, simple Gothic style church comprising nave with lower and narrower chancel and west tower. Walls are rubble stone with freestone dressings and red sandstone quoins, the roof is slate. The 3-stage tower is slightly battered to the base and has a corbelled NE stair turret incorporated in the nave wall. It has a pointed S doorway with continuous chamfer and boarded door. In the west face a window to the ringing chamber comprises 2 round-headed lights under a drip mould set well above. All faces have narrow belfry openings. The pyramidal roof has a finial.
The nave has two 2-light windows, with pointed quatrefoil tracery light, but not symmetrically placed. To the left of the windows is a blocked former south doorway. In the chancel south wall is another blocked doorway, and a small medieval cusped window now infilled. The 3-light east window has intersecting tracery. A gabled vestry is on the north side, which has a 2-light north window with doorway to its right, and an east doorway with boarded door. The nave has 2 cusped north windows.
This blocked up window has marks deep in to the stone at the bottom and on the side. These could be from where people had sharpened swords or arrows, these are known on very old church and buildings. They would have taken many years to scratch in this deep.
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Links and references to this above information
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Cambria Archaeology, Welsh Historic Churches Project; Lloyd, Thomas, 'Sculpture in Carmarthenshire: a survey of church monuments', The Carmarthenshire Antiquary 25, 1989, pp 51-2.