St Asaph Cathedral
St Asaph, Denbighshire
Diocese: Llanelwy/St Asaph
Photo © Martin Crampin
OS Grid Ref.: SJ03907431
Lat/Lng: 53.257061675102,-3.4419996515392
The Cathedral Church of St Asaph and St Cyndeyrn is first attested in 1143.
The church was not associated with Asaph (Assavensi ecclesia) until 1284, and it was not described as a cathedral (Ecclesia Cathedralis de Sancto Asaph) until 1291.The dedication is shared with Cynderyn, as it is at Llanasa and the separate parish church in St Asaph. Although the connection between Cynderyn and the cathedral goes back to the twelfth century, its antiquity prior to that is uncertain.
More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
Stained Glass in Wales
Hywel Wyn Owen & Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2007), 430
Hywel Wyn Owen & Ken Lloyd Gruffydd, Place-Names of Flintshire (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017), 108
John Reuben Davies, 'Bishop Kentigern among the Britons' in Saints' Cults in the Celtic World (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2009), 83–7
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 219
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 482
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 101
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