Bodewryd

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| official_name = Bodewryd

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| unitary_wales = Anglesey

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Bodewryd ({{IPA|cy|bod'ɛrʊi̯d|lang}}; {{pronunciation|Bodewryd.ogg|Welsh pronunciation|help=no}}) is a village in Anglesey, Wales, in the community of Mechell.

St Mary's Church

The village church is St Mary's, Bodewryd, a small medieval church. It is said by the Diocese of Bangor to be the second-smallest church in Anglesey.{{cite web|url=http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/bangor/diocese/parish_details/twrcelyn/stmary.html |title=Deanery of Twrcelyn: St Mary, Bodewryd |publisher=Church in Wales |access-date=7 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607153153/http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/bangor/diocese/parish_details/twrcelyn/stmary.html |archive-date=7 June 2011 }} The date of construction is unknown, but there was a church on this site in 1254 and the earliest feature to which a date can be given is a doorway, said to be from the 15th century or perhaps about 1500. When the church was restored in 1867 after being struck by lightning, stained glass with Islamic-influenced patterns was included in the windows, a requirement of Lord Stanley of Alderley, the church's benefactor, who was a convert to Islam. The church is still in use, as part of the Church in Wales, and is one of five churches in a combined parish.{{cite web|url=http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/rb/ben.php?dosommat=detail&which=119|title=Church in Wales: Benefices|access-date=7 January 2011|publisher=Church in Wales|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608002431/http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/rb/ben.php?dosommat=detail&which=119|archive-date=8 June 2011}} It is a Grade II listed building, a designation given to "buildings of special interest, which warrant every effort being made to preserve them",{{cite book|url=http://cadw.wales.gov.uk/docs/cadw/publications/What_Is_Listing_EN.pdfformat=PDF|title=What is listing?|publisher=Cadw|year=2005|isbn=1-85760-222-6|page=6}}{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} in particular because it is a "simple, rural church of Medieval origins."{{cite web|url=http://jura.rcahms.gov.uk/cadw/cadw_eng.php?id=5348|title=Church of St Mary|author=Cadw|author-link=Cadw|publisher=Historic Wales|date=2009|access-date=7 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929075918/http://jura.rcahms.gov.uk/cadw/cadw_eng.php?id=5348|archive-date=29 September 2011|url-status=dead}}

References

External links

[https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=3570056 photos of Bodewryd and surrounding area on geograph]

Category:Villages in Anglesey

Category:Mechell, Anglesey