{"nrhp_refnum":"78002394","name":"St. David's Church and Graveyard","other_names":["St. David`s Episcopal Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7 mi. (11 km) N of Media","address_restricted":false,"city":"Media","county":"Delaware County","state":"PA","lat":40.02690776400004,"lon":-75.40454235099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. David's Church is a one-story, rectangular rubble masonry Anglican church with a wooden shingled gable roof, set in a churchyard on the border of Newtown and Radnor Townships in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Its cornerstone was laid on May 9, 1715, and parishioners did much of the building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a fine example of an early stone church and represents the oldest non-Quaker house of worship in Delaware and Chester Counties and one of the earliest in the state. Its basic structure remains externally as erected in 1715. The churchyard holds the gravestones of eleven Revolutionary War soldiers, including Major General Anthony Wayne, and the church was the parent of ten other congregations.","narrative":"Built of rubble stone beginning in 1715 on the border of Newtown and Radnor Townships in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, St. David's is a one-story rectangular church with a shingled gable roof. Its cornerstone was laid on May 9, 1715, and much of the construction was carried out by its Welsh-speaking parishioners, who followed the simple one-room form of medieval Welsh country churches. The church was in use by March 1717 and was named for St. David, patron of Wales. It served as the parent parish of ten other congregations and was represented at the first General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1784. The churchyard contains the identifiable gravestones of eleven soldiers of the Revolutionary War, including Major General Anthony Wayne. Its fabric is regarded as the oldest non-Quaker house of worship in Delaware and Chester Counties and one of the earliest in Pennsylvania. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow later wrote about it in the poem Old St. David's at Radnor.","period_of_significance":"1715-17","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"one room, rectangular mediaeval Welsh country church style","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.932475-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002394.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002394/3171ab01c1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002394/3171ab01c1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_David%27s_Church_Exterior_1907.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_David%27s_Church_Exterior_1907.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998576","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._David%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Radnor,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7587707"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/delaware-county/st-davids-church-and-graveyard-78002394/"}