Church of St Cadfan

Tywyn, Merionethshire

Diocese: Bangor/Bangor

OS Grid Ref.: SH58820095
Lat/Lng: 52.587966201,-4.0854059531

Cadfan's church at Tywyn is described by Llywelyn Fardd in his mid-twelfth century poem, and the poem also mentions altars to Mary and to Peter at the church. Eighteenth-century sources give the dedication as All Saints. A further chapel and holy well, also dedicated to Cadfan, stood nearby.

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Church Heritage Cymru
Stained Glass in Wales

Sources

Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 212

John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 498

A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 96

Llywelyn Fardd, Canu i Gadfan     View online

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