Church of St Ffraid
Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain, Montgomeryshire
Diocese: Llanelwy/St Asaph
OS Grid Ref.: SJ22052040
Lat/Lng: 52.775537650098,-3.1569625414767
Medieval church dating to at least the fourteenth century, which may contain some twelfth-century fabric.
It is first recorded in the Norwich Taxation of 1254 as Cap'lla de Llansanfret.More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
Richard Morgan, A Study of Montgomeryshire Place-Names (Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2001), 121
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), 220
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 485, 486
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 110
Taxatio (2014), AS.AS.ME.02 View online
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