Church of St Mary

Llanllugan, Montgomeryshire

Diocese: Llanelwy/St Asaph

OS Grid Ref.: SJ05770234
Lat/Lng: 52.6106343201,-3.39304660894

Cistercian nunnery dedicated to the Virgin Mary founded in the late twelfth century. It has been speculated that a church here was included as the church of Llugyrn among the list of foundations by Tysilio in a poem by the twelfth-century poet Cynddelw.

Saints linked to this site

More information

National Monuments Record
Church Heritage Cymru
Stained Glass in Wales

S. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1913), 303    View online

Richard Morgan, A Study of Montgomeryshire Place-Names (Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2001), 117

Monastic Wales (2009), site/37    View online

Sources

John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 487

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