Church of St Padarn
Llanberis, Caernarfonshire
Diocese: Bangor/Bangor
OS Grid Ref.: SH57875998
Lat/Lng: 53.1180011416,-4.12517566765
The dedication to Padarn at this church in Llanberis, built on a new site in 1884–5, appears to supplant Peris, who is the patron of the church nearby at Nant Peris. The choice of Padarn probably draws on the adjacent place-name, Dolbadarn, first recorded early in the fourteenth century. But it is doubtful that the Padarn of that name is the same saint culted further south in medieval Wales.
More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
Hywel Wyn Owen & Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2007), 220, 299
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 209
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 84
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