Postcode
NP16 6LX

Sunday Services
1st Sunday – 9.30 – Morning Prayer
2nd, 3rd & 4th Sundays – Holy Eucharist

Worship

We gather weekly to worship together. On the 1st Sunday of the month we have a service of Morning Prayer, gathering to sing hymns and hear from God’s word. On the 2nd, 3rd & 4th Sunday’s we gather around God’s table to share the Eucharist together, to sing hymns and hear from his word.

Map & Accessibility

Parking – Along the road adjoining the churchyard

Churchyard – There are some small steps up into the church yard, the rest of the path to the building is flat.

Church – There is a small step up into the porch and a full step down into the building. There is level access through the vestry.

Toilets – There are no toilets

History

The church at Llanvair Discoed was founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century. The correct name of the settlement in Welsh meant “Mary’s church near the forest” (Llanfair Is Coed) and referred to the forest of Wentwood, which in the time of the Gwent kingdom separated the then territorial units Gwent Is Coed from Gwent Uwch Coed.

The medieval church was a small, rural building consisting of a nave rectangular in plan and a four-sided chancel in the east. At that time, it probably did not yet have a sacristy on the north side of the chancel and a porch on the south side of the nave. The entrance for the congregation was placed in the center of the southern wall of the nave, additionally the parson could enter through the southern portal of the chancel. The interior was probably traditional for rural Welsh parish churches, and was covered with an open, wooden roof truss.

In 1746, the porch was added to the church on the south side, and in the 19th century, the entire building underwent a thorough Victorian modernization.