Church of All Saints, Kemeys Commander

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All Saints Church
Church of All Saints
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The entrance and bell gable
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All Saints Church
Location in Monmouthshire
Coordinates: 51°44′17″N2°56′39″W / 51.7381°N 2.9442°W / 51.7381; -2.9442
Location Kemeys Commander, Monmouthshire
CountryWales
Denomination Church in Wales
Website Official website
History
Status Parish church
Foundedc. 13th century
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designation Grade II*
Designated18 November 1980
Architectural type Church
Administration
Parish Bettws Newydd and Kemeys Commander
Deanery Raglan/Usk
Archdeaconry Monmouth
Diocese Monmouth
Clergy
Rector The Reverend K J Hasler

The Church of All Saints, Kemeys Commander, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a parish church with its origins in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

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History

The hamlets of Kemeys Commander and Kemeys Inferior formed part of the Monmouthshire estates of the Knights Templar. [1] The Templars administered their holdings through commandery, accounting for the name of the hamlet. A reference to a church on the site dates from the 13th century, but the present building was constructed in the 15th century. [1] The Lordship of Kemeys dates from the Middle Ages and was held by the Kemeys family until the estate was sold in the early 18th century. [2]

The church was restored by Richard Creed in the late 19th century. [3] At the time of the restoration, the vicar was The Rev. Herbert Sheppard M.A., of Clare College, Cambridge. [4]

Architecture and description

The church is built of local limestone in the Perpendicular style. [5] The entrance is through a timber porch [5] and under a bell gable. [6]

The building has suffered from subsidence and the bell gable is off-vertical. [7]

The church retains its original medieval rood screen and rood beam, one of few churches in southeast Wales that do so. [8] [9]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Good Stuff. "Church of All Saints, Gwehelog Fawr, Monmouthshire". Britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  2. Newman 2000, p. 260.
  3. "Listed Buildings - Full Report - HeritageBill Cadw Assets - Reports". Cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  4. "KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE, 1901". Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  5. 1 2 Newman 2000, p. 259.
  6. "All Saints, Kemeys Commander". Coflein. 13 December 2002. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  7. "GGAT01812g". Cofiadurcahcymru.org.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  8. Newman 2000, p. 25: "At Kemeys Commander the screen and rood beam remain, and were clearly constructed together with the fabric of the little church".
  9. Kenyon, John R.; Williams, Diane M. (2006). Cardiff: Architecture and Archaeology in the Medieval Diocese of Llandaff. British Archaeological Association. ISBN   978-1-904350-80-4.
    reprinted as Kenyon, John R.; Williams, Diane M. (2020). Cardiff : architecture and archaeology in the medieval diocese of Llandaff. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN   9781000161076.

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South side of the church