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THE CHURCH OF NEW RADNOR. By W. H. Howse. By the courtesy of the Rev. Mervyn W. Davies, priest-in-charge at New Radnor, I have had access to the Minute Book of the Committee for Rebuilding New Radnor Church. The book is a recent discovery. Had I known it earlier, I should not have made the mistake of saying in Radnor Old and New that the church was built in 1862, for these minutes clearly show that it was built in the period 1843-5, and that the new building was consecrated on 31st July, 1845. I can only plead as my excuse that I was following the statement made in the Report of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments, which said that the church was erected in 1862. Edwin Davies, in his 1905 edition of Williams's History, gives the same year, but uses the word restored he adds, at a cost of £ 1,300," which is very little short of the actual cost of the building. So presumably, he too was led astray. I am sorry to have perpetuated the error, and hasten to correct it. I said in Radnor Old and New that the church had little pretension to beauty." The phrase of the Royal Commission was that it had no pretensions to architectural consideration." After reading the minutes, we find that it had considerable pretensions at the time it was built. Pasted up with the minutes is a cutting from the Illustrated London News of 4th October, 1845, giving an account of the consecration of the new building by the Bishop of Hereford on 31st July. I found later, at the Hereford Library, that this was copied almost verbatim from an account which appeared in the Hereford Times of 31st August, a few of the latter's superlatives being omitted. Here are two sentences from the cutting Few structures of modern date have greater claims on pious liberality than the church at New Radnor it does great credit to the original design, as well as to the contractor, Mr. Follett, who has evinced a spirit and liberality which have greatly conduced to the beauty and stability of the structure." The new church, the subject of this notice, on account both of its pure Early English style of architecture, and of its interior arrangements, is worthy to be a model for imitation and although of smaller dimensions than the last structure, yet, by its admirable adaptation for the purpose, it supplies one hundred more free sittings."