St Nidan's Church, Llanidan

St Nidan's Church, Llanidan
The south side of the church
St Nidan's Church, Llanidan Location in Anglesey
53°10′56″N 4°15′45″W / 53.182180°N 4.262597°W / 53.182180; -4.262597
OS grid reference	SH 489 674
Location	Brynsiencyn, Anglesey
Country	Wales, United Kingdom
Denomination	Church in Wales
History
Status	Church
Founded	1839–1843
Dedication	Nidan
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	30 January 1968
Architect(s)	John Welch
Style	Gothic revival
Specifications
Materials	Red gritstone dressed with sandstone
Administration
Province	Province of Wales
Diocese	Diocese of Bangor
Archdeaconry	Bangor
Deanery	Tindaethwy and Menai
Parish	Newborough with Llanidan with Llangeinwen and Llanfair-yn-y-Cymwd
Clergy
Priest in charge	E. Roberts[1]

St Nidan's Church, Llanidan is a 19th-century parish church near the village of Brynsiencyn, in Anglesey, north Wales. Built between 1839 and 1843, it replaced the Old Church of St Nidan, Llanidan, which needed significant repair, providing a place of Anglican worship nearer to the village than the old church. Some items were moved here from the old church, including the 13th-century font, two bells from the 14th and 15th century, and a reliquary thought to hold the remains of St Nidan. The tower at the west end has been described as "top heavy" and looking like "a water tower".^[2]

The church is still used for worship by the Church in Wales, one of five in a group of parishes in the south of Anglesey. It is a Grade II listed building, a national designation given to "buildings of special interest, which warrant every effort being made to preserve them",^[3] in particular because it is regarded as "a distinctive example of pre-archaeological gothic revival work."^[4] The 19th-century clergyman and antiquarian Harry Longueville Jones said that it had been built in a "debased barbarous style, showing neither architectural science nor taste".^[5]