Site: Llangadwaladr

Name:Llangadwaladr CISP No:LGADW
Place:Llangadwaladr Grid Ref:SH 3840 6930 (GB)   Map
Parish:Llangadwaladr Stones:1
County:Anglesey (Môn) , Wales Saint(s):Cadwaladr
Site Type:ecclesiastical

Site Notes

RCAHMW/1937, 85-86, 'Parish church of St Cadwaladr stands in the N. part of the parish. The walls are mostly of sandstone ashlar with dressings in the same material...the roofs are slate-covered. The original church was probably built in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century and is represented on plan by the present nave.'

The proximity of Llangadwaldr to the early royal site of Aberffraw has lead to the view that the two were connected, with Llangadwaldr being the site of a royal burial ground from the early seventh century. See White and Longley/1995, 13-21, and Edwards/1986, 24, and Lloyd/1939, I, 231.

Jones/1972, saw Aberffraw as the centre of a possibly early 'multiple estate'. The Welsh laws and some of the stories of the Mabinogion have Aberffraw as the seat of the kings of Gwynedd.

Charles-Edwards/1995, 715 n. 65, argues that the evidence for Cadwaladr founding the church at this site is modern and not to be trusted. RCAHMW/1937, 86 argues that the original church may have been 12th or 13th century.

References

Stones