Mary (Mair)

Cistercian abbey, founded 1176 and suppressed in 1537.
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Tironensian abbey founded originally as a priory and shortly afterwards elevated to an abbey.
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Abbey originally founded in 1164, and dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
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Chapel listed as in ruins by Browne Willis (1730), under St Michael's, Talley. Talley Abbey was jointly dedicated to the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist.
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The chapel is now a rooofless ruin, located near to Margam Abbey.
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Former chapel in the south range of Llawhaden Castle.
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Place-name first attested in 1254 as 'Beate Marie super Montem'.
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Llanfair Old Parish Church

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Parish church whose dedication to Cadog is attested by several sixteenth century sources, although churches in Caerleon with dedications to Julius and Aaron, and the Holy Trinity, were attested in the twelfth century. The location of these churches has been the subject of debate and speculation. A Capel Gwenog in the parish was also attested in 1577.

A chantry of St Mary, presumably at the parish church, was recorded in 1563.
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Although the church has been associated with both Cynfarch and Mary, the dedication to Mary is recorded as far back as the thirteenth century, in the Norwich Taxation of 1254.
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The earliest association of Cynidr with the church is first attested in 1490, while the joint dedication is first attested in about 1562.
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Church dedicated to Michael, or Michael and All Angels, the new church having been consecrated on the feast of St Michael and All Angels in 1853. However, the previous church was dedicated to Mary according to eighteenth-century sources, and this dedication has remained in use by some sources.
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The medieval dedication of the church is not clear, but is given as Mary in eighteenth century sources. However, early spellings of the place-name suggest either the modern Nefydd, or Ufydd. An early six inch map labels the church as dedicated to Matthew.
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Church now dedicated to Twrog, although eighteenth-century sources record the dedication as the Virgin Mary, and the wake-day at Maentwrog on the Festival of the Assumption.
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The medieval church stands within an early medieval monastic site at which three dedications are known: a chapel dedicated to Gwyddfarch, and churches to Tysilio and Mary.
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Church dedicated to Mary, but one early source gives Beuno.
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Church now dedicated to Mary Magdalene, but formerly though to be dedicated to Mary.
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A source from 1230 confirms the dedication to Mary, although the church is now dedicated to Mary Magdalene. Eighteenth- and nineteenth- century authorities simply say Mary.
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Church now dedicated to Mary Magdalene, although earlier sources just give Mary.
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The church is sometimes referred to only as dedicated to Mary, although D.R. Thomas and A.W. Wade Evans were sure of its original dedication to Beuno, as it was thought to be the mother church of Holywell. The church is presently dedicated to both Mary and Beuno.
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Eighteenth-century sources agree on the dedication of the church at Beaumaris to Mary, although the current dedication is jointly to Mary and Nicholas. Writing in the later eighteenth century, Thomas Pennant refers to chapels of St Mary and of St Nicholas 'in antient writings'.
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The old parish church of Cardiff, which was a Benedictine house from the twelfth century, granted with its dependent chapels to Tewkesbury Abbey before 1106.
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The current dedication seems to have been preceded by a dedication to Mary, although Browne Willis gives John the Baptist.
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Cistercian nunnery dedicated to the Virgin Mary founded in the late twelfth century. It has been speculated that a church here was included as the church of Llugyrn among the list of foundations by Tysilio in a poem by the twelfth-century poet Cynddelw.
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Parish church of Abergavenny and former Benedictine priory.
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The church was dedicated to Mary according to eighteenth-century sources, although evidence suggests that the church was previously dedicated to Collen.
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Church dedicated to Mary, although Wade-Evans argued for Llywelyn as the original patron of the church.
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Eighteenth-century sources give Mary as the dedication, although a nearby well is dedicated to Beuno.
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Church now dedicated to Mary. A.W. Wade-Evans speculates that the dedication was previously to Cain, albeit not the same Cain as the daughter of Brychan, or the same saint associated with Llaneurgain (Northop).
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Former church now in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.
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The church is now a roofless ruin, situated to the south of the present Cardiff suburb of Caerau.
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Church on the site of a medieval Augustinian priory, known as 'the priory of the Valley St Mary of Snowdon(ia)'.
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Medieval church dedicated to Mary, closed for regular worship and in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches. The church has been recorded as dedicated to Michael, but this was an erroneous reference to Tal-y-llyn, in Twrcelyn.
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Church now closed.
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The dedication of the church has also been suggested as Ewryd.
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Church located south of Llanbrynmair at the settlement known as Llan. The place-name is originally attested in the form Brynmair from 1254 (Brenmeyr), while the dedication of the church to the Virgin Mary is attested in 1429.
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Church closed in 1999.
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Church attested in 1355, although its association with Mary as patron dates only to the mid-sixteenth century. It was no longer in use by the nineteenth century.
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Medieval church of fourteenth-century date, closed for regular worship since the 1970s.
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Church first built early in the fourteenth century.
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The church was mentioned by Gerald of Wales in around 1200. The church was ruined by the late eighteenth century.
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The church at Cardigan was dedicated to the Holy Trinity when granted to Gloucester Abbey in about 1115, but the dedication to Mary is recorded in the late twelfth century. The priory church became an important pilgrimage site for 'Our Lady of the Taper' in the later Middle Ages, and the present Roman Catholic church (and Welsh National Shrine) takes this dedication.
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Church sited close to present day Llandovery.
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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.
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In addition to the parish church, it has been suggested that there was also another chapel, and perhaps a holy well, in the parish dedicated to Mary.
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Former priory church dedicated to Mary. The church also had a chantry of St Nicholas (recorded in the seventeenth century), and a chapel dedicated to Michael.
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Church built adjacent to the former Cistercian abbey church. The abbey (originally founded in 1164) was also dedicated to Mary.
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Church now dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and Mary is attested as the patron in 1486 (ecclesia Beat' Marie). However, as a hospital dedicated to Mary Magdalene is attested in 1484, the church could also have been dedicated to Mary Magdalene. The hospital had its own chapel (the Maudlen Chapel) according to a sixteenth-century source.
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Church dedicated to Mary although early modern sources have linked the church to Gorgonius and with Gwrgan(t), who was claimed as one of the many saintly daughters of Brychan.
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The present church occupies the nave of the former abbey church, which was founded 1147) and dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
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Parish church of Chepstow and former Benedictine priory ⁠– the first Norman monastic house founded in Wales.
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Former priory church rebuilt in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Church that has been dedicated to Mary since at least the eighteenth century.
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Church currently dedicated to Mary and supported by eighteenth-century sources, although other names (Gwaryn and Tyfog) have been linked to the church as patrons.
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A reference to the church of around 1566 gives the church a joint dedication to both Mary and Cynidr.
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The meaning of the [it:Maredd] element of the place-name is unclear. It could be a river name, or a personal name, perhaps the saint Mariaith that Lewis Glyn Cothi mentions in a fifteenth-century cywydd. It is possible that the dedication to Mary has arisen due to the similarity of the names.
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The church is recorded as dedicated to Cynidr as early as 1404, and again in the sixteenth century, when Mary was also recorded as the patron of the church. Browne Willis, in the eighteenth century, gives Mary, which remains in use today.
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Church with late medieval fabric, now disused.
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Church built in 1843⁠–5 on the site of an earlier building, probably a twelfth- or thirteenth-century foundation.
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Church dedicated to Mary, the antiquity of the dedication suggested by the Welsh place-name for Gladestry, Llanfair Llythynwg.
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Church attested in the early thirteenth century.
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Medieval church restored and altered several times in the nineteenth century, but no longer in use as a church.
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Church now closed and in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.
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Ruins of a former chapel near Penrhyn Old Hall.
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Ruins of former church, abandoned in 1856.
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Former chapel associated with Gloddaeth Hall, now lost and exact location uncertain.
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Church formerly in the Diocese of St Davids, before being transferred to the Diocese of Hereford. Now closed.
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Medieval church, now closed. The church was dedicated to Mary, and also formerly had a chantry chapel dedicated to the saint. However, the place-name of Tal-y-llyn has been known in the form Llanfihangel Tal-y-llyn since 1535 (Llanvihangell Talyllyn), suggesting a dedication to Michael from the sixteenth century.
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Church of uncertain location, attested in around 1600 as dedicated to Mary.
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Church, now ruined, mentioned in the thirteenth century as Merthyr Cynlais, but recorded as a dedicated to Mary in 1401.
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Medieval church dedicated to Mary, closed in 1982.
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Church dedicated to Mary, although an earlier dedication to Ffraid (Bride) has been suggested.
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Former church on the coast near the present village of Marloes. It was lost to the sea at some time prior to the 1830s, and possibly long before that, as the church is not mentioned by Browne Willis in 1733.
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Church originally dedicated to Mary, with the dedication altered to include David in 2011 after the closure of St David's Church in Oakenholt. The church was built in 1846⁠–8, but its medieval predecessor dated back to the late thirteenth century, whose dedication is unattested.
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Church currently dedicated to both Mary and David, although older sources usually give one or the other. The place-name is given in the form Lann Degui Cil Pedec in the Book of Llandaff, Degui being suggestive of Dewi (David).
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Former church jointly dedicated to Mary and Curig. The dedication is first attested in the mid-sixteenth century, and developed as a place-name, which appears on nineteenth century maps.
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Church whose dedication is currently shared between Mary and Egryn, the latter found in the place-name and preferred by Wade-Evans, while the former is stated by Browne Willis.
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The church was formerly a Cistercian House, dedicated to Mary, before the community was moved to Maenan by Edward I, after which the church became the parish church of St Mary and All Saints.
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Hospital founded in 1287 in the market town established by Bishop Thomas Bek, bishop of St Davids. It was dissolved in the sixteenth century.
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Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul with St Dyfrig, St Teilo and St Euddogwy. Founded in 1107, and raised to cathedral status as the centre of the new diocese in the mid-twelfth century.
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Cadfan's church at Tywyn is described by Llywelyn Fardd in his mid-twelfth century poem, and the poem also mentions altars to Mary and to Peter at the church. Eighteenth-century sources give the dedication as All Saints. A further chapel and holy well, also dedicated to Cadfan, stood nearby.
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Place-name whose hamlet included a chapel dedicated to Mary, attested in its Welsh form from the seventeenth until the nineteenth century. A Latin form, dated 1535, is recorded in the possessions of nearby Whitland Abbey. The area now forms the southern part of Whitland, or Trevaughan.
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Place-name derived from the dedication of a church, now ruined.
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Place-name originally attested in the form Brynmair from 1254 (Brenmeyr), and with llan element from 1470⁠–1 (Llambryn mayr).
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Place-name attested in its earliest form in 1616.
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The name is recorded on the second edition Ordnance Survey map as a former monastic site.
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Variations of place-names form Llanfair are found from the thirteenth century, in reference to the original medieval church, dedicated to Mary, although it has fallen out of usage.
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