St Dwywe’s Church is a
Grade II* listed
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church in
Llanddwywe,
Gwynedd
Gwynedd (; ) is a county and preserved county (latter with differing boundaries; includes the Isle of Anglesey) in the north-west of Wales. It shares borders with Powys, Conwy County Borough, Denbighshire, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and C ...
,
North Wales.
It has a curvilinear
churchyard
In Christian countries a churchyard is a patch of land adjoining or surrounding a church, which is usually owned by the relevant church or local parish itself. In the Scots language and in both Scottish English and Ulster-Scots, this can also ...
and farm buildings on its west. Its structure, of
rubble stone
Rubble stone is rough, uneven building stone not laid in regular courses. It may fill the core of a wall which is faced with unit masonry such as brick or ashlar. Analogously, some medieval cathedral walls are outer shells of ashlar with an inn ...
construction, is mainly of
late medieval and
early modern date, the church having first been mentioned in documents dating to 1292–1293.
It is named for Saint
Dwywe ferch Gwallog, a
pre-congregational saint of
Wales born between 465 and 585,
St. Dwywe ferch Gwallog
/ref> who was reported to be the wife of Saint Dynod Bwr and mother of Saint Deiniol and possibly of Cynwyl, Gwarthan, and Aneirin.
References
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Grade II* listed churches in Gwynedd