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The church was demolished and rebuilt in the 1860s and the original church was founded in the late 11th century by the Earl of Hereford making his mark as a Marcher Lord over the ancient Welsh lordship of Senghenydd.

The cemetery is still in use and has the burial of 11 coal miners who remained unidentified after the Albion Colliery disaster in nearby Cilfynydd. On 23rd June 1894 an explosion occurred at the colliery taking the lives of 290 men and boys.

The cemetery also has graves from another terrible disaster, the explosion at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd. The worse disaster in a British coalfield taking the lives of 439 men and boys on the 14th October 1913.