St. Mary's Church in Newchurch, Powys, is a notable Victorian building erected on the site of an earlier medieval church. The current building was constructed between 1856 and 1857. It's a simple, unaltered Victorian church with a nave and a short, narrower chancel. A distinctive architectural feature is the west gable bell tower with a broach spire. Inside, the chancel arch is tall and plain, and the nave's roof features slender collar-trusses on head-masks. While the main structure is Victorian, the church contains several older items, including a plain cylindrical font that is thought to be from the 10th or 12th century, two 14th-century bells, a 17th-century communion table, and some 18th-century paneling. The church is also historically significant due to its association with the Reverend Francis Kilvert, a well-known diarist who occasionally preached there.
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