ST. DAVID'S CHURCH, BRECON.
12th October 1852.
The editor of the Spectator is respectfully informed, that an account -which appeared in his last number of the falling down of the parish-church of St. David's, ]lrecon, containing an indirect reflection on the Bishop, the Dean and Chapter of St. David's, is incorrect in the following particulars. 1. The church is not situate in the town of Brecon, but about half a mile nut of it.
2. The living is not in the patronage either of the Bishop or of the Dean and Chapter of St. David's, but in that of the Archdeacon of Brecon.
3. The church never possessed any claims to architectural beauty. It has apparently been confounded by the person who furnished the account with another, which does possess such claims,—namely, the Collegiate Church of Brecon, which stands between St. David's Church and the town, and in which divine service will be performed until the latter is rebuilt.
St. David's Church had been suffered to decay, because preparations had leen for a considerable time in progress for rebuilding it on another site, on the opposite side of the high-road, which has been granted by the Archdea- con of Brecon for that purpose.
It is hoped that the editor, with his usual candour, will insert this cor- rection of an inaccurate and injurious statement in his next number.
A CONSTANT READER.
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