Church of St Cawrdaf
Abererch, Caernarfonshire
Diocese: Bangor/Bangor
OS Grid Ref.: SH39663658
Lat/Lng: 52.9026722507,-4.38540324964
Church dedicated to Cawrdaf, or Cwrda.
Browne Willis gives the dedication as Cwrda, while Wade-Evans gives the dedication to both Cawrdaf and Cadfarch. A reference to the church as Abererch. 11. gowrda is dated to around 1566.A nearby holy well and a stone known as Cadair Gawrdaf suggest his importance to the area, and it is at Abererch that Hywel Rheinallt locates the saint and his shrine in his fifteenth-century poem.
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), 95–7 View online
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 210
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 496
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 86
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