Church of St Bridget
St Brides, Pembrokeshire
Diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids
OS Grid Ref.: SM80271085
Lat/Lng: 51.7531305864,-5.18491256265
Medieval church whose dedication is attested from the mid-thirteenth century.
A ninth-century charter, found in a sixteenth-century manuscript, refers to the church as Abbas Llan Sanfrigt, which would be an exceptionally early attestation of the dedication of a church in Wales.The present church was rebuilt in 1868 and retains medieval features. However, there is evidence of an earlier church site, slightly to the north-west and now located on the shore. According to Samuel Lewis, writing in the early nineteenth century, the chapel was used as a salting-house for curing fish, and stone coffins were known to have been washed away.
More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
Hywel Wyn Owen & Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2007), 430
Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (London: S. Lewis and Co., 1834), Bride's (St) View online
B.G. Charles, The Place-names of Pembrokeshire (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1992), 631
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 34
Sources
S. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1907), 283 View online
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 179
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 457
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