Church of St David
Llanthony, Monmouthshire
Diocese: Mynwy/Monmouth (Former diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids)
OS Grid Ref.: SO28852782
Lat/Lng: 51.9443095784,-3.0365158342
The Llanddewi form of the place-name given by Gerald of Wales in around 1191, Landewi Nanthotheni, alludes to a chapel dedicated to David that stood there. The dedication of the church now adjacent to the abbey ruins is still to David (and was marked in this way on the first edition OS map), although the dedication of the church at Llanthony recorded by Browne Willis is given as John the Baptist. This might allude to the dedication of the priory church or a chapel or altar of the priory, which was still remembered in the eighteenth century.
More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
Richard Morgan, Place-Names of Gwent (Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2005), 139
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 186
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 464
Ordnance Survey 6 inch map (1880s), Monmouthshire
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 42
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