Church of St Deiniol
Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire
Diocese: Bangor/Bangor
OS Grid Ref.: SH54576592
Lat/Lng: 53.1704667759,-4.17714421152
Church dedicated to Deiniol, built in 1843 to replace an older church that stood nearby.
The place-name Llanddeiniolen (first recorded in the form Landeynyolen in 1284) has been taken to suggest that Deiniol's son was the patron here. Deiniolen, or Deiniol fab, seems to have been regarded as a separate saint by the sixteenth century. It is possible that the diminutive suffix en might originally have distinguished 'little Llandeiniol' as distinct from Bangor, the major church of Deiniol.Browne Willis notes a feast day on 22 November, which differs from the usual date for Deiniol in September.
More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
Hywel Wyn Owen & Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2007), 224
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 209
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 495
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 84
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