Church of St Mary

Eglwysfair, Carmarthenshire

Diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids

OS Grid Ref.: SN20091620
Lat/Lng: 51.8153950947,-4.61148116048

Now the parish church for Whitland, the site was formerly the chapel of the eponymous Eglwysfair, first attested in 1535. However, some eighteenth-century sources give David as the dedication.

Saints linked to this site

David

Mary

More information

National Monuments Record
Church Heritage Cymru

Sources

Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 187

John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 471

Ordnance Survey 6 inch map (1880s)

A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 47

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