Church of St Bridget

Llansantffraed, Brecon

Diocese: Abertawe ac Aberhonddu/Swansea and Brecon  (Former diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids)

OS Grid Ref.: SO12242350
Lat/Lng: 51.9031034267,-3.27700058168

Victorian church built on the site of a medieval predecessor.

The dedication is attested early forms of the place-name from around 1100, and the church described as Ecclesia de Sancta Brigida in the 1254 valuation.

Saints linked to this site

Bridget

More information

National Monuments Record
Church Heritage Cymru
Stained Glass in Wales

The Historic Churches Survey Database (1999)    View online

Sources

S. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1907), 283    View online

Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 182

John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 463

Richard Morgan & R.F. Peter Powell, A Study of Breconshire Place-Names (Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1999), 109

A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 39

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