Newcastle Emlyn History Society
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More Holy Trinity Church 1
The Church around 1912 with the topof it’s tower missing.
Holy Trinity Church around 1890
A list of Vicars in the Church
The new Church was consecrated by Bishop Thirwall on September 18th 1842 and on June 10th 1843 it was elevated to the dignity of a Parish Church and a Parish assigned to it by order in Council, town, hamlet and Dolbryn hamlet all in the old Parish of Cenarth and the Manor and Borough of Adpar of Lower Llandyfriog in Cardiganshire. It is often said that those who built the Church in 1842 committed a great blunder by trusting the building of the edifice to an untrained local architect. This was a tradition believed by most people in Newcastle Emlyn. In 1925 however a copy of a bill came to light which showed a sum of £51:16shillings paid to a Mr Colland for plans and superintending. Whoever this gentleman was, he was not the local genius of the tradition. Sad to say though the material used in the construction of the Church was the best of it’s kind and though the masonry and woodwork have been pronounced excellent there were some serious miscalculations in the structure, weak and comparatively lofty walls supporting too wide a nave span was one of them. Whatever the fault the factor remains by the time of the second incumbent the Rev W Powell it was declared to be in a dangerous condition. It is now believed that had it not been for the extraordinary amount of memel wood in the roof and the skilful manner in which it had been put together the whole structure would have collapsed long ago. As it was the east wall was found to be completely shattered. The upper part of the tower had moved and large cracks had appeared in it, portions fell away and the heavy battlements had to be taken down.