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<< Text Pages >> Ffynnondecwyn - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Wales in Gwynedd

Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 14 January 2009  Page Views: 3705

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Ffynnondecwyn Alternative Name: Ffynnon Decwyn
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.435 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Gwynedd Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Penrhyndeudraeth  Nearest Village: Llandecwyn
Map Ref: SH63183742
Latitude: 52.916724N  Longitude: 4.03632W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Gwynedd

A spring that flows into a rock cavity.

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Re: Ffynnondecwyn by Andy B on Thursday, 13 August 2015
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A couple of miles to the south west of Maentwrog we come to the church of St Tegwyn (also written as Tecwyn) at Llandecwyn. Tegwyn is supposed to have arrived in the area with Cadfan and a number of others who have left dedications in the area. Some writers have suggested that he and Twrog were brothers, although this is not a common belief, one thing they did have in common was the large stone that bore their name. However, whilst Twrog’s stone remains beside his church, Tegwyn’s was apparently broken up at some time during the eighteenth century to be used to construct a new barn.

The church too, is of relatively recent construction; the previous church was completely demolished and rebuilt around 1879. There is one small inscribed stone built into the new church wall that dates from one of the previous buildings commemorating St Tegwyn.

Like his stone, Tegwyn’s well has also been reused, and according to an information sheet within the church has now been recycled to provide a water supply to the nearby farm Plas Llandecwyn. The well was recorded in 1699 by Lhuyd, whose record states

Ffynnon Degwyn is by Plas Degwyn not far from the church.

In 1914 the site was visited by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments compiling their inventory for Merionethshire. They wrote

Near Plas Llandecwyn is a spring which flows into a cavity about 3 feet at the front and 2 feet at the back by a breadth of 21 inches; the water stands in its rock cistern to the depth of 14 inches and as there is a slight but steady flow the water is kept sweet. There can be little doubt that this is the well noted by Lhuyd, but the name of Tecwyn is not now connected with it.

The grid reference provided in the Coflein inventory for this site is SH 63173742. This area is shown in the photograph below, and can be seen to be completely covered in bracken. Despite our best efforts we could find no trace of the feature described in 1914.

More at
https://wellhopper.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/ffynnon-decwyn-llandecwyn/
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    Re: Ffynnondecwyn by davidmorgan on Thursday, 13 August 2015
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    The Coflein grid ref (SH63183742) appears to be for a well marked on the map, there is also a spring marked at about 52.916688, -4.0344796 (SH 63304 37412) in the bottom left-hand corner of this map.
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      Re: Ffynnondecwyn by Andy B on Thursday, 13 August 2015
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      I just updated the location to the one given by Coflein, the old location we had was about 1km away.
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