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<< Our Photo Pages >> St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) - Early Christian Sculptured Stone in Wales in Gwynedd

Submitted by Sunny100 on Saturday, 14 August 2010  Page Views: 14651

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) Alternative Name: The Lovernus Stone, St Baglan's Stone
Country: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Caernarfon  Nearest Village: Llanfaglan
Map Ref: SH4550660714
Latitude: 53.121153N  Longitude: 4.310116W
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
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 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.
 5 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
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St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan)
St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) submitted by pab : Sept 2011, St Baglan's Church. Detail from the external carved stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Early Christian Sculptured Stones in Gwynedd. St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan). The partially deserted church stands about half a mile NW of the village and two miles W of Caernarfon. There are three ancient stones within, one having a Romano-British inscription, and two with Celtic crosses carved on them. They date from between the 5th-10th century CE.

Apparently the stones were dug-up in the locality and brought into the church for safety. Embedded into the wall near the porch are two grave-slabs bearing large incised Celtic crosses, one is built into the windowsill and the other acts as a lintel. On one there is a Romano-British inscription recalling LOVER NUS FILI or LAVER NUS FILI - 'here lies Lovernus', dating from the 5th century. The Lintel stone and a third stone most likely date from the 10th century, though there is some uncertainty about this.

The church is dedicated to St Baglan the son of Dingad. He lived sometime in the 6th-7th century and was an abbot of Bardsey Island. In a field a few hundred yards to the NE of the church lies Ffynnon Faglan (St Baglan's Holy Well) which was referred to as a 'pin well' - bent pins were thrown into the water in the hope of a miracle of healing.

The pillar stone reused as a lintel is recorded as Coflein NPRN 95765. This entry concludes with the sentence: "Cropmarks of an involved enclosure complex have been recorded about the church" - see (NPRN 403370). For more information about the church see Coflein NPRN 43690.

The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for this site - scroll down their page for Some Inscribed Stones in Wales.
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St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan)
St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) submitted by pab : Photo, Sept 2011: 5th / 6th century memorial stone, used as lintel. COFLEIN records that "St Baglan’s is home to a later 5th or early 6th century inscribed stone (‘FILI LOVERNII / ANATEMORI’) which has been re-used as the rear lintel of the south doorway (Nash-Williams 1950, 88; RCAHMW 1960, 200). This photo was taken during one of the occasional (and precious!) weekends when l... (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan)
St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) submitted by pab : St Baglan's Church A short walk across the fields from the coastal road, the ancient church of St Baglan's is not normally open - but the Friends of Friendless Churches charity does make sure it opens a couple of times a year and is cared for as well as possible. Even if it is not open, it should be possible to see one of its treasures in the porch, in the form of this fascinating early car... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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SH4560 : Mynwent eglwys Llanfaglan by Mike Parker
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SH4560 : Llanfaglan Church from the East by Eric Jones
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SH4560 : Public footpath to St Baglan's Church and Tan y Graig by Christine Johnstone
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SH4560 : Porth Mynwent Eglwys S Baglan Lych Gate by Alan Fryer
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SH4560 : Porth Mynwent Eglwys S Baglan Lych Gate by Alan Fryer
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Re: St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) by PAB on Thursday, 19 April 2012
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The original text posted for this entry included a reference to a well: "...In a field a few hundred yards to the N of the church lies Ffynnon Faglan (St Baglan's Holy Well) which was referred to as a 'pin well' - bent pins were thrown into the water in the hope of a miracle of healing."

To avoid anyone else having the same disappointment as we did, please note that farming has removed any trace of the well. I will post a separate item related to this with some photos to show how sadly the location and access has been virtually obliterated.
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Re: St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) by PAB on Tuesday, 27 September 2011
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Sculptured / inscribed stones: I thought people would be as fascinated I was by a very instructive source of information about the stones at St Balgan's Church - it was mentioned by Croperdy in a discussion string on the Stones Forum I came across yesterday, and I think it needs flagging up again.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/stone/lfgln_1.html

Andy / Admin: If anyone has time, perhaps there could be links done to the other churches in the database with such stones....?

If you follow the links and camera icon for each site record, you will get images of the inscriptions themselves. A great resource - sorry folks if it's one you all already use, but I wanted to share it with you. This should take you to the main index page:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/index/site_geog.html
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St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) Street View by PAB on Tuesday, 27 September 2011
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Re: St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) by PAB on Monday, 26 September 2011
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Hi Sunny - no, the church is clearly visible on Street View. The road along the coast next to it is quite a significant one - Ifor had a couple of 49-seater coaches in the layby for one of his recent open days! We had no problem with the campervan either...

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    Re: St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) by Runemage on Tuesday, 27 September 2011
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    Once you have the street view you want, look at the top right of the Google page, there are 3 symbols, a printer, an envelope and a chain. Click on the chain, it gives you two options. Highlight the link displayed below the option saying "Paste HTML to embed in website" and paste it here.

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      Re: St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) by PAB on Tuesday, 27 September 2011
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      Thanks Rune - that was painless! Sunny - you'll hopefully see what I mean now about no cliffs!
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Re: St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) by Sunny100 on Monday, 26 September 2011
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PAB the lane running towards St Baglan's church might be a bit too far away for a Street View.
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Re: St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) by PAB on Monday, 26 September 2011
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Sunny - no cliff here! Erosion might become a problem, but it would probably be due to sea level rise.

I can't quite remember how to post a link to Google's Streetview, but you can see the old pilgrim church easily across the fields in that.

Perhaps someone could put a link in to the corrected map reference?
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Re: St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) by Sunny100 on Monday, 26 September 2011
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St Baglan's Church stands close to the edge of the land abutting the sea about 1km west of Llanfaglan village. It is approached across a field from a country lane some 150 metres away. Altogether a very isolated spot' The church's situation near the edge of the land looks as if it could be a problem in years to come from rising sea level, according to PAB.
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Re: St Baglan's Church (Llanfaglan) by Sunny100 on Monday, 26 September 2011
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New Os grid reference SH.4555 6068.
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