LLANFIHANGEL-DIN-SYLWY
LLANVIHANGEL-DIN-SYLWY (LLAN-FIHANGEL-DIN-SYLWY), a parish, in the union of Bangor and Beaumaris, hundred of Tyndaethwy, county of Anglesey, in North Wales, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Beaumaris; containing 58 inhabitants. The name is derived from the dedication of the church, and its adjunct from the ancient British fortification Din Sylwy, or "the exploratory station," immediately above that edifice. This parish, a part of which is within the limits of the borough of Beaumaris, is situated on the shore of the Irish Sea; the surrounding scenery is wild and rudely magnificent, and the prospects from the higher grounds embrace an assemblage of objects more striking from their grandeur than pleasing from their beauty. There are some very extensive quarries of limestone and marble, affording employment to a considerable portion of the inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that of Llangoed. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small ancient edifice, remarkable for its peculiar position beneath Din Sylwy, and on the slope of a hill fronting the entrance of the Menai straits. In itself it is exceedingly simple, consisting of a nave and chancel, the former eighteen feet by thirteen, internal dimensions, and the latter about twelve feet square; over the west end of the nave is a single bell-gable, and the gable of the chancel is surmounted by a cross. At the south-east angle of the choir is placed, somewhat incongruously, the curiously-carved, moveable pulpit of the church; it is made of oak, and has its patterns apparently burnt out, the marks of the charring being still very evident. The chancel window and chancel arch, though of decorated English design, may probably be assigned to the beginning of the 15th century. An engraving of this building, and a very neat engraving of the pulpit, are given in the Archæologia Cambrensis for January 1848, with an architectural description of the church. There is a Sunday school: and the interest of a benefaction of £1, by a person unknown, is annually given to the poorest person in the parish.
LLANFIHANGEL-DIN-SYLWY
LLANVIHANGEL-DIN-SYLWY (LLAN-FIHANGEL-DIN-SYLWY), a parish, in the union of Bangor and Beaumaris, hundred of Tyndaethwy, county of Anglesey, in North Wales, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Beaumaris; containing 58 inhabitants. The name is derived from the dedication of the church, and its adjunct from the ancient British fortification Din Sylwy, or "the exploratory station," immediately above that edifice. This parish, a part of which is within the limits of the borough of Beaumaris, is situated on the shore of the Irish Sea; the surrounding scenery is wild and rudely magnificent, and the prospects from the higher grounds embrace an assemblage of objects more striking from their grandeur than pleasing from their beauty. There are some very extensive quarries of limestone and marble, affording employment to a considerable portion of the inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that of Llangoed. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small ancient edifice, remarkable for its peculiar position beneath Din Sylwy, and on the slope of a hill fronting the entrance of the Menai straits. In itself it is exceedingly simple, consisting of a nave and chancel, the former eighteen feet by thirteen, internal dimensions, and the latter about twelve feet square; over the west end of the nave is a single bell-gable, and the gable of the chancel is surmounted by a cross. At the south-east angle of the choir is placed, somewhat incongruously, the curiously-carved, moveable pulpit of the church; it is made of oak, and has its patterns apparently burnt out, the marks of the charring being still very evident. The chancel window and chancel arch, though of decorated English design, may probably be assigned to the beginning of the 15th century. An engraving of this building, and a very neat engraving of the pulpit, are given in the Archæologia Cambrensis for January 1848, with an architectural description of the church. There is a Sunday school: and the interest of a benefaction of £1, by a person unknown, is annually given to the poorest person in the parish.