Church of St Dingat

Dingestow, Monmouthshire

Diocese: Mynwy/Monmouth  (Former diocese: Llandaf/Llandaff)

OS Grid Ref.: SO45721041
Lat/Lng: 51.7896982493,-2.78837394708

Church dedicated to Dingad, supported by the form of the place-name in English (Dingestow) and Welsh (Llanddingad), although eighteenth-century sources give Mary as the patron. The earliest form of the place-name, [it:merthirdincat] (1129), indicates that a shrine to Dingad was located here.

Saints linked to this site

Dingad

Mary

More information

National Monuments Record
Church Heritage Cymru

Hywel Wyn Owen & Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2007), 125

Richard Morgan, Place-Names of Gwent (Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2005), 87

Sources

Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 202

John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 510

A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 72

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