Church of St Peter and St Illtyd
Llanhamlach, Brecon
Diocese: Abertawe ac Aberhonddu/Swansea and Brecon (Former diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids)
OS Grid Ref.: SO08962644
Lat/Lng: 51.9290024103,-3.32544009195
Medieval church whose dedication was recorded as being to Peter in the early eighteenth century. However, Gerald of Wales records that Illtud lived here as a hermit.
There was also a prehistoric monument in the vicinity known as Ty Illtyd, and holy well dedicated to Illtud. The current dedication is presently to both saints, as it was on the first edition six-inch OS map.Wade-Evans argues that the church was dedicated to Anlach, the father of Brychan.
More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
Richard Morgan & R.F. Peter Powell, A Study of Breconshire Place-Names (Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1999), 107–8
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 38 n. 5
Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales), Itinerarium Kambriae , i, ch. 2
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 182
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