Llangattock-Vibon-Avel ( cy, Llangatwg Feibion Afel) is a rural

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and former

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, now in the community of Whitecastle in Monmouthshire, south-east

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, in the

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. It is located west of Monmouth and some east of Abergavenny, just off the B4233 old road between the two. Villages within the former community include Llangattock itself,

Skenfrith Skenfrith ( cy, Ynysgynwraidd) is a small village in Monmouthshire, south-east Wales. It is located on the River Monnow, close to the border between Wales and England, about north-west of Monmouth. The road through the village (B4521) was once ...

, Rockfield, and

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Name

The name means, in

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, "Saint

Cadoc Saint Cadoc or Cadog ( lat-med, Cadocus; also Modern Welsh: Cattwg; born or before) was a 5th–6th-century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorgan, Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the British church as a centre of learni ...

's church, of the sons (''Meibion'') of Abel", the latter part to distinguish the village from others in the area with dedications to Cadoc, such as Llangattock Lingoed. The local form, in the dialect of south east Wales, would have been ''Llangatwg F'ib'on Afel''.

History

St Cadoc's Church is a

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. Its tower dates in part from the 14th century, but the main part of the building was rebuilt in the 19th century by

Thomas Henry Wyatt Thomas Henry Wyatt (9 May 1807 – 5 August 1880) was an Anglo-Irish architect. He had a prolific and distinguished career, being elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1870–73 and being awarded its Royal Gold Medal for ...

.John Newman, ''The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire'', 2000, The church contains several brass and stone tablets dating from the early part of the 17th century, to the Evans family, formerly seated at Llangattock Manor. The church register dates from 1683. The quiet south-facing graveyard contains five memorial tombs to members of the Rolls family, including

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, of

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fame. The churchyard also contains a tall granite war memorial to men of the parish who fell in both World Wars. Nearby Llangattock Manor was built on the site of an earlier house in 1877, for

John Rolls John Rolls (27 February 1735 – 8 September 1801) was a native of Bermondsey, Southwark, London, Surrey, England. A member of the Rolls family of The Grange in Bermondsey and The Hendre, Monmouthshire, he married heiress Sarah Coysh. T ...

, who later took the title of Baron Llangattock. It is also by Wyatt. Llangattock School, now known as Monmouth Montessori School, is a

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and nursery housed in a school building commissioned by John Rolls at the same time as the manor house, for the children of workers on the family's estate. The Rolls of Monmouth golf club is based nearby at

The Hendre The Hendre, ( cy, Yr Hendre a farmer's winter residence; literally meaning old home) in Rockfield, is the only full-scale Victorian country house in the county of Monmouthshire, Wales. The ancestral estate of the Rolls family, it was the child ...

, which was the main seat of the Rolls family.

Llanfaenor

Two miles (3.2 km) to the northwest of the village, at Llanfaenor, is an ancient chapel of ease, restored in 1859, and consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret originally containing one small bell. In 1987 the chapel was converted to a private residence, retaining many of the original features.Llanfaenor chapel
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