Church of St Cyngar
Hope, Flintshire
Diocese: Llanelwy/St Asaph
OS Grid Ref.: SJ30965839
Lat/Lng: 53.1181984947,-3.03301114554
Double-naved medieval church, dedicated to Cynfarch or Cyngar.
The name is given in various different forms including Cynfar, Cynfarch, Cynfyr as well as Cyngar. A single place-name form of Llangyngar was recorded in 1373, and a feast to Cyngar noted by Edward Lhuyd in about 1700.More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
Stained Glass in Wales
S. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908), 252 View online
Hywel Wyn Owen, The Place-Names of East Flintshire (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1994), 232–3
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 219
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 485
Ordnance Survey 6 inch map (1880s)
Rice Rees, An Essay on the Welsh Saints or the Primitive Christian usually considered to have been the Founders of Churches in Wales (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1836), 335
Ordnance Survey 6 inch map (1891–1914)
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 102
'Parochialia being a summary of answers to [Edward Lhwyd's] 'Parochial Queries'. Part i: North Wales' in Archaeologia Cambrensis (1909), 96
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