Church of St Curig

Llangurig, Montgomeryshire

Diocese: Bangor/Bangor

Exterior of the Church of St Curig, Llangurig
Photo © Martin Crampin

OS Grid Ref.: SN90787991
Lat/Lng: 52.406260231451,-3.6069627769906

Medieval church whose dedication to Curig is well attested from 1254.

Further references in medieval poetry and a late medieval Welsh Life associate this church with the cult of Quiricus, or Curig in his Welsh form.

Saints linked to this site

Curig

More information

National Monuments Record
Church Heritage Cymru
Stained Glass in Wales

S. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908), 193–6, 198    View online

Hywel Wyn Owen & Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2007), 262

Sources

Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 217

John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 499

A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 98

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