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Key Image Eglwys Cyngar Sant/St Cyngar’s Church
Church Street
LL77 7EB Llangefni
United Kingdom
Denomination: Anglican
Congregation: Bro Cyngar (Esgobaeth Bangor/Diocese of Bangor, Archdeaconry of Bangor, Synod Ynys Môn)
Geogr. Coordinates: 53.25785° N, 4.31303° W
Geo Location
Reference year: 1824
Architectural style: Gothic Revival
Description: Single-nave church in the Georgian Gothic style with three-bay nave and west tower over the porch
Name derivation: From St Cyngar
Building material
  • Local, roughly dressed, coursed masonry with sandstone dressings, slate roof
Noteworthy
  • Inscribed stone in the porch (5th cent.)
Font
  • Stone font with chevron rim (12th cent.)
  • Octogonal font (19th cent.)
History:
1824:   Built in place of a demolished precursor church
1858:   Addition of the vestry
1889:   Addition of the chancel
Important persons:
Patron:  Cyngar (470–520, abbot in Wales and supposedly bishop in Somerset)
Sources
Coflein: St Cyngar’s Church, Llangefni, http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/201/details/st-cyngars-church-llangefni, retrieved 27/06/2018
Wicipedia: Cyngar, https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyngar, retrieved 27/06/2018
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