St. Philip, Caerdeon (1)

I have been meaning to go to St. Philip, Caerdeon, which is looked after by the Friends of Friendless Churches, on the estuary near Dolgellau. It’s remarkable – looks like a minor work of Frank Lloyd Wright, but turns out to be fifty years earlier, dated 1861, designed by a vicar, J.L.Petit, who was an expert in church architecture. The Ecclesiologist described it as ‘something between a large lodge gate and a lady’s rustic dairy’, which seems unfair to a building of such strong and early rustic vernacular:-

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