The 19th-century clergyman and antiquarian Harry Longueville Jones thought that the church was probably 16th-century in date, but might have been built using material from an older structure. The date of construction of the church is uncertain, but it is a medieval building, probably from the 15th century. ![]() Cwmwd means " commote" (a type of Welsh land division), so the full name of the parish means "St Mary's Church in the commote". Llanfair-yn-y-Cwmwd takes its name in part from the church: the Welsh word llan originally meant "enclosure" and then "church", and "-fair" is a modified form of the patron saint's name ( Mair being the Welsh for "Mary", here referring to St Mary, the mother of Jesus). The church is about 5.5 miles (9 km) from the county town of Llangefni, and just under 1 mile (1.5 km) from the neighbouring church of St Ceinwen's, Llangeinwen. St Mary's Church is located in a churchyard about 100 yards (90 m) from the road in the countryside near the village of Dwyran, in Anglesey, north Wales. It is also said to be "an important survival" because many of the older churches in Anglesey were extensively rebuilt or repaired during the 19th century, and the alterations at St Mary's were less extensive. St Mary's is a Grade II* listed building, a national designation given to "particularly important buildings of more than special interest", in particular because it is regarded as "a good example of a simple, substantially unaltered, late Medieval church". Services are held once per month between April and September. ![]() The church is used for worship by the Church in Wales, one of five in a combined parish. Maurice Wilks, who invented the Land Rover, is buried in the churchyard.Īlthough at one time during the 19th century St Mary's was too dilapidated to permit services to be held, repairs were carried out in the 19th century. The historian Henry Rowlands was vicar of St Mary's in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The bell is inscribed with the year of its casting, 1582. It contains a 12th-century carved stone font and a 13th-century decorated coffin lid. The building probably dates from the 15th century, with some alterations. St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yn-y-Cwmwd is a small medieval parish church near the village of Dwyran, in Anglesey, north Wales. Newborough with Llanidan with Llangeinwen and Llanfair-yn-y-Cymwd Harold Hughes and William G. Williams (1936 repairs)
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