Chapel of St Curig

Cat's Ash, Monmouthshire

Diocese: Llandaf/Llandaff

OS Grid Ref.: ST37129076
Lat/Lng: 51.6121421183,-2.90949419299

Former medieval church, dedicated to Curig, situated on the Roman Road. It was first recorded as a chapel of Goldcliff Priory in 1536.

Its remains were marked on the second edition of the sixth-inch OS map as St Curig's Chapel in the late nineteenth century, although the dedication is given as Cyriac (Curig, Latin: Cyriacus) by Wade-Evans. By the early twentieth century it had been converted into a farm building. An earlier dedication to Cyfyw has been suggested, drawing on a tentative association with a reference in the twelfth-century Book of Llandaff.

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More information

National Monuments Record

Richard Morgan, Place-Names of Gwent (Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2005), 62

Sources

A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 78

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