Church of St Cynog
Defynnog, Brecon
Diocese: Abertawe ac Aberhonddu/Swansea and Brecon (Former diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids)
OS Grid Ref.: SN92542793
Lat/Lng: 51.939462874,-3.56461993807
Church recorded as being dedicated to Cynog by the eighteenth century.
Cynog's Gwyl Mabsant was a week of festivities at Defynnog that began on the Sunday after the second Thursday in October. On the Monday, Dydd Llun Gwyl Gynog, the custom of 'carrying Cynog' took place: a stranger or unpopular local was carried through the streets and thrown in the river. The practice is said to have ceased around 1822.More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
Elissa Henken, Traditions of the Welsh Saints (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1987), 184
Sources
S. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908), 269 View online
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 181
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 461
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 36
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