Capel Ffraid

Capel Ffraid, Cardiganshire

OS Grid Ref.: SN40404598
Lat/Lng: 52.0890918712,-4.3309471487

Lost chapel, whose dedication to Ffraid is doubtful. The place-name of Capel Ffraid is not attested until the nineteenth century.

Although it is evident that a chapel formerly stood here, its dedication to Ffraid appears to have been a nineteenth-century innovation. Alternative spellings prior to 1803 suggest that the second element was not Ffraid and earlier spellings include Lanfra and Lanfrene.

Saints linked to this site

More information

National Monuments Record

Iwan Wmffre, The Place-Names of Cardiganshire (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004), 228

Sources

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

A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 60

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