Qualla: Chapel of St Non https://qualla.com/chapel-of-st-non en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/chapel-of-st-non-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Chapel of St Non https://qualla.com/chapel-of-st-non Chapel of St Non: Introduction https://qualla.com/chapel-of-st-non/ Photo credit Thruxton, CC BY 3.0. Tradition holds that on a wild night in the sixth century, a young Welsh woman named Non gave birth on the cliffs above the bay that now bears her name, while a storm tore across St Bride's Bay and lightning split a nearby standing stone in two. Her son grew up to become Dewi Sant: Saint David, patron saint of Wales. The ruin where she is said to have laboured sits low against the wind, walls a few feet high, oriented north to south rather than east to west like an ordinary chapel. People still come. They throw coins into a well behind the rocks. The well still gives water.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/chapel-of-st-non-wp/gchr-chapel-of-st-non-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Chapel of St Non: The Stones https://qualla.com/chapel-of-st-non/ Photo credit nick macneill, CC BY-SA 2.0. The chapel is unusual on several counts. Its alignment ignores the east-west convention that ruled Christian architecture from the early medieval period onward, and most scholars take that as evidence the building predates the convention itself, making it one of the oldest Christ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/chapel-of-st-non-wp/gchr-chapel-of-st-non-the-stones.mp3 0:06 2 full Chapel of St Non: The Holy Well https://qualla.com/chapel-of-st-non/ Photo credit Garth Newton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Just beyond the chapel ruins, water rises through stone into a small vaulted chamber roofed by an 18th-century repair over medieval foundations. The well was already venerated when Browne Willis surveyed St Davids in 1717, reporting visitors arriving on St Non's Day, the second o...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/chapel-of-st-non-wp/gchr-chapel-of-st-non-the-holy-well.mp3 0:06 3 full Chapel of St Non: Morgan-Griffiths's Chapel https://qualla.com/chapel-of-st-non/ Photo credit Elahrairah, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1934 a solicitor from Carmarthen named Cecil Morgan-Griffiths built a new chapel beside the old. He had a house on the headland, but the nearest Catholic church was sixteen miles away, and he wanted somewhere closer to worship. Working with stone salvaged from ruined chapels a...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/chapel-of-st-non-wp/gchr-chapel-of-st-non-morgan-griffithss-chapel.mp3 0:06 4 full Chapel of St Non: The Retreat https://qualla.com/chapel-of-st-non/ Photo credit Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0. Behind the new chapel sits Morgan-Griffiths's former home, now St Non's Retreat. For decades it was run by the Passionist Fathers and the Sisters of Mercy, hosting yoga workshops, days of reflection, and sanctuary for bereaved parents. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff-Me...

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