Church of St Cathen
Llangathen, Carmarthenshire
Diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids
OS Grid Ref.: SN58452214
Lat/Lng: 51.879806436,-4.05783947326
Browne Willis gives the patron of the church as Michael, although the patron is more often cited as Cathen. The place-name Langathen is cited in 1318, and the name of the commote, Catheiniog, contains the same personal name. A.W. Wade-Evans also claimed that a Capel Cadvan was located in the parish church.
More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
Hywel Wyn Owen & Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2007), 255
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 190
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 473
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 52
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