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monasteries, which were made up of a main religious building supported by several smaller buildings, such as cloisters and kitchens, a clas was normally a single building. The building was run by a community of clergy and headed by an
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Caernarfonshire, where he founded the monastery for which he is mainly remembered. The church, which stands in an almost circular graveyard, was appropriated by the Cistercian abbey of
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with a value of ÂŁ5 in the
Lincoln Taxation of 1291. Between 1254 and 1272 it became one of the appropriated churches of the Cistercian abbey of Strata Marcella, and remained so up to the
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in the 6th century, and its almost oval churchyard may indicate that it was a monastic or clas church of early medieval origin. With the rectory and vicarage it was recorded as
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in the late 11th century, many of the clasau of south Wales became dependencies of religious houses in
England. This resulted in several sites becoming part of the
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who died c. 640. A life of the saint survives which recounts that he was born locally in the vicinity of the river
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which lie outside the modern boundary of Wales in the Welsh
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415:The Book of Llandaf and the Norman church in Wales
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332:. Montgomeryshire. The church is dedicated to
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48:church in early medieval Wales. Unlike later
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485:Davies, (1982), 143-144, Fig. 50 with list
476:Faber, London, 2nd ed. 1966, Pl. 27, pg.24
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192:near Newport. He was then given land in
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188:at the Roman settlement of
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603:Medieval history of Wales
588:Types of church buildings
302:, established by St Teilo
503:Wade Evans A W (1930),
62:Norman invasion of Wales
256:(= Caergybi, Ynys MĂ´n).
76:Clas locations in Wales
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593:Christian terminology
532:, UWP, Cardiff, pg 6.
413:Davies, J.R. (2003),
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370:, St Seiriol's clas
216:in the Middle Ages.
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94:Diocese of Llandaff
378:St Cadfan's Church
236:Ecclesia de Bethys
198:Brochwel Ysgithrog
598:Churches in Wales
472:Rees, W. (1951),
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324:Saint Asaph
240:Dissolution
118:Cistercians
70:Augustinian
66:Benedictine
582:Categories
505:Beuno Sant
429:References
384:Literature
356:at nearby
310:Llanelwy (
294:Llancarfan
160:Beddgelert
362:Sion Ceri
300:Llandeilo
271:Coychurch
138:Aberdaron
98:ecclesiae
80:A map of
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346:chapelry
312:St Asaph
277:Glasbury
254:Anglesey
250:Holyhead
224:St Beuno
194:Aberhiew
190:Caerwent
174:St Beuno
143:Abergele
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206:Powys
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