St John the Baptist Church, Danescourt

St John the Baptist
51°30′14″N 3°14′30″W / 51.503801°N 3.241574°W / 51.503801; -3.241574
Denomination	Church in Wales
Website	https://garthma.wales/our-churches-and-halls/st-johns-church-danescourt/
History
Status	Active
Architecture
Functional status	Parish church
Heritage designation	II
Designated	19 May 1975
Style	Perpendicular
Years built	14th Century
Administration
Diocese	Diocese of Llandaff
Archdeaconry	Llandaff
Deanery	Radyr
Parish	Radyr
Clergy
Priest(s)	Rev'd Mary Evans

The Church of St John the Baptist is a listed Anglican church which serves the suburbs of Radyr and Danescourt in Cardiff.

According to legend, the area of Radyr was the home in the 5th Century of a hermit named Tylywai, a disciple of St Cadog, who founded a chapel or wayside shrine there. The presence of an actual church is thought to date from the 11th Century; by which time the area was on the route of pilgrims travelling to Llandaf to pay respects to St Teilo.^[1] It is referred to in written records in 1254,^[2] by which time it was already long-established. The early church was replaced in the 13th Century. Elements of the Medieval architecture survive in the present building, though the church was extensively restored and modified by John Prichard in the 1860s,^[3] and further modifications occurred in the years following. The church, which was surrounded by fields until the 1970s, became listed in 1975.

The parents of the author Roald Dahl are buried in the churchyard.^[4]

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