St Beuno's Church, Berriew

It was of brick with stone dressings, and had the entry under a pinnacled west tower to a galleried nave with four round-headed windows a side.

[2] He was clearly much venerated in Berriew and St Beuno’s stone stands by Dyffryn lane close to the River Severn.

He also shows the chapel on the North East side of the Church, which, at that time housed a monument to Arthur Pryce of Vaynor Park, who died in 1597.

It was of brick with stone dressings, and had the entry under a pinnacled west tower to a galleried nave with four round-headed windows on the side.

[5] It was a rather conservative design, seen in Georgian churches of Shropshire and the Marches and possibly derived from St Alkmund's, Whitchurch, which was built in 1712.

The doorway in the west tower was blocked, stone facing for brick, and Gothic revival windows, except for the circular ones on its second stage.

Victorianization therefore consisted of inserting the arcades of alternate circular and octagonal piers, the aisle windows and open roofs, and of adding a chancel.

tracery of pinkish ashlar, contrasting with the green trachyte from the Earl of Powis' Standard quarry in Welshpool.

Monuments in the north aisle, are three recumbent marble effigies from a raised tomb in the old church, of Arthur Price of Vaynor Park, who died in 1597 and his two wives.

Another to William Owen of Glansevern died 1837– a tablet on a corbel, and a relief portrait on a base supporting a shrouded urn, signed E. H. Baily, 1838.

A glacial boulder by the path to the lych-gate marks the meeting point of three of the 15 townships in the parish, Berriew, Cil and Faenor Issa (Lower Vaynor).

St Beuno’s Church in Berriew
Berriew Church, Montgomeryshire
Berriew Church, Montgomeryshire
Old School, Berriew 1819
Berriew War Memorial Lychgate by Sir Ninian Comper, 1933
Berriew War Memorial