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"LLANGWSTENNIN, (or Llan-cystenyn), a parish in the hundred of Creuddyn, county Carnarvon, 2 miles N.E. of Conway, its post town and railway station on the Chester and Holyhead line, and 7 from Abergele. The village, which is small, is situated on the northern coast, and the river Conway flows through the parish. Here are copper mines, in which a large proportion of the people are employed. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of St. Asaph, value £145, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Constantine, is erected on the site of a former one, which tradition says was founded by the Emperor Constantine in the early part of the 4th century. The parochial charities produce about £16 per annum." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
LLANDUDNO JUNCTION, St. Michael 1929-1930 - on the Church plans online site
LLANGWSTENIN, St. Cystenin 1841-1844 - on the Church plans online site
Handbell from old Llangystennin Church - on the Gathering the Jewels site
"Handbell of cast bronze from the old church at Llangystennin, which was demolished in 1843" [which fits in with the above rebuild grant application in 1841-44]
St Cystennin Church, Llangystennin - on the Churches of Britain and Ireland site
St Michael and All Angels Church, Llangystennin - on the Churches of Britain and Ireland site
Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at the Caernarfon Area Record Office.
Llangystennin - on Wikipedia
Mochdre - on Wikipedia
Llandudno Junction - on Answers.com
LLANGWSTENYN, or LLANGWYSTENNIN (LLAN-GYSTENNYN), a parish in the hundred of CREUDDYN, county of CARNARVON, NORTH WALES, on the road from Chester to Holyhead, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from Aberconway, containing 643 inhabitants. This parish is pleasantly situated at the entrance to the Vale of Conway, and on the eastern bank of that river, near its mouth : it is of small extent, and contains no village; the houses, which are few in number, lying scattered over its surface : formerly it was divided into the two townships of Tre Iorwerth and Llanwdden, which, on account of the small value of the tithes at that time, were united, and their boundaries are not now accurately known. Indications of copper-ore exist in several parts, and spirited efforts are now in progress for obtaining it, which are likely to produce a successful result. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of St. Asaph, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £ 1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Bishop of St.Asaph. The church, dedicated to St. Constantine, is a small plain structure, situated in a pleasing valley close to the boundary line between the counties of Carnarvon and Denbigh, and said to be the first Christian church erected in Wales: it is conjectured to have been founded by Constantine the Great, who died in the year 330. Henry III. was commanded by the pope to do penance in this church, but was subsequently absolved, on payment of a fine of five hundred marks of silver. There are places of worship for Baptists and Calvinistic Methodists. Llangwstenyn participates, in conjunction with the parishes of Aberconway, Eglwys-Rhos, and Llandudno, in the gift of Lewis Owen, Esq., who, by will dated September 4th, 1623, assigned the rectorial tithes of the parish of Aberconway, in trust, to be equally divided between the Vicar of that parish and the poor of all the four. The amount resulting to this parish, in the year 1830, was £ 16, which was distributed in money and clothes to the poor on St. Thomas' day. The average annual expenditure for the maintenance of the poor is £181. 3. ( A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833)
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