Church of St Cannen
Llanganten, Brecon
Diocese: Abertawe ac Aberhonddu/Swansea and Brecon (Former diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids)
OS Grid Ref.: SO00945176
Lat/Lng: 52.1552015677,-3.44938467126
Church dedicated to Cannen or Canten, although the dedication is given as Katherine by Browne Willis in the eighteenth century. The identification of a personal name Cannen from the place-name is not certain, leaving the identity of the original medieval patron open to question.
More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
S. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908), 71–2 View online
Richard Morgan & R.F. Peter Powell, A Study of Breconshire Place-Names (Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1999), 103–4
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 182
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 466
Ordnance Survey 6 inch map (1891–1914)
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 40
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