Church of St Cwrdaf
Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire
Diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids
OS Grid Ref.: SN71263195
Lat/Lng: 51.9710661296,-3.87552134763
Church dedicated to Cwrdaf, who was rendered as Cwrda by Browne Willis in the eighteenth century.
The mutation that follows llan- would give the name of the saint as Gwrdaf or Gwrda rather than Cwrdaf. Cwrdaf has been equated with Cawrdaf, but the link between Cawrdaf and the church must be regarded as tenuous at best.The name Gwrda may have arisen from the Welsh gwr da: the church of the good, or holy, man.
More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
S. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1911), 205 View online
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 50
Sources
S. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908), 96 View online
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 190
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 474
Rice Rees, An Essay on the Welsh Saints or the Primitive Christian usually considered to have been the Founders of Churches in Wales (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1836), 270
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