Church of St Mary
Cantref, Brecon
Diocese: Abertawe ac Aberhonddu/Swansea and Brecon (Former diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids)
OS Grid Ref.: SO05652546
Lat/Lng: 51.9196420905,-3.37329516621
The church is recorded as dedicated to Cynidr as early as 1404, and again in the sixteenth century, when Mary was also recorded as the patron of the church. Browne Willis, in the eighteenth century, gives Mary, which remains in use today.
More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
Richard Morgan & R.F. Peter Powell, A Study of Breconshire Place-Names (Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1999), 52
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 181
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 462
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 37
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