Abbey Cwmhir
Abbey Cwmhir, Radnorshire
Diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids
OS Grid Ref.: SO05557110
Lat/Lng: 52.3298322867,-3.38743426206
Cistercian abbey, founded 1176 and suppressed in 1537.
The dedication to Mary dates back at least as far as the early fourteenth century, and was retained for subsequent churches and is the dedication of the nineteenth-century church nearby.More information
National Monuments RecordMonastic Wales (2009), site/26 View online
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 185
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 467
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 44
