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As a province of the Anglican Communion, the Church in Wales recognises the Archbishop of Canterbury as a focus of unity but without any formal authority. [6] A cleric of the Church in Wales can be appointed to posts in the Church of England, including the See of Canterbury; a former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, was from Wales and ...
The church was reputedly founded by St Beuno in the 6th century, and its almost oval churchyard may indicate that it was a monastic or clas church of early medieval origin. With the rectory and vicarage it was recorded as Eccli'a de Bethus in the Norwich Taxation of 1254 and as Ecclesia de Bethys with a value of £5 in the Lincoln Taxation of 1291.
The church is built to a double-nave plan, with a south porch and a bellcote. [1] The architectural historian Edward Hubbard, in his 2003 Clwyd volume of the Pevsner Buildings of Wales, notes that the church was whitewashed in the 19th century and rendered in the 20th. [a] [8] The building materials are limestone and Welsh slate for the roof. [1]
Robert Scourfield and Richard Haslam, in their Powys volume in the Buildings of Wales series, note its "lovely, secluded location". [4] The church consists of a nave, chancel, aisles and a western tower. [6] St Matthew's is as a Grade I listed building. [2] Its lychgate, and the former rectory are listed at Grade II. [7] [8]
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The writer Clive Aslet, who describes the church as "the remotest (.) in Wales", [2] recounts the legend of the founding of the church, on the spot where two yoked heifers rested. [2] The circular churchyard suggests a Celtic, possibly pre-Christian, origin for the site. [2] The present church is early medieval, [3] Cadw suggesting a 13th ...
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