Qualla: Llanbadrig https://qualla.com/llanbadrig 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/k/z/llanbadrig-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Llanbadrig https://qualla.com/llanbadrig Llanbadrig: Introduction https://qualla.com/llanbadrig/ Photo credit Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1884 the chancel of a small medieval church on the north Anglesey cliffs was restored, and the man paying for the work was Henry Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley. Stanley had converted to Islam while travelling in Arabia, and on his return to England he became the first Muslim member of the House of Lords. When his ancestral chapel of St Patrick at Llanbadrig was crumbling beyond repair, he insisted on something local tradition had never seen: the new stained glass would carry no biblical figures, only geometric and floral patterns in blue and red. Blue and gold tiles were fitted around the sanctuary in the same Islamic-inspired idiom. The Welsh word llan means church, and badrig is Patrick - so Llanbadrig literally means Patrick's church. The result is a Grade II*-listed Christian church on the most northerly point of Wales decorated, in part, like a mosque.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/llanbadrig-wp/gckz-llanbadrig-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Llanbadrig: Patrick's Island https://qualla.com/llanbadrig/ Photo credit Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0. Legend dates the church's first founding to 440 CE, when Patrick himself - on his way from Britain to begin the conversion of Ireland - was supposedly shipwrecked on a small rock half a mile offshore. The island is still called Ynys Badrig, Patrick's Isle, though English maps usu...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/llanbadrig-wp/gckz-llanbadrig-patricks-island.mp3 0:06 2 full Llanbadrig: The Promontory Fort https://qualla.com/llanbadrig/ Photo credit Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. A mile west of the church, on the Llanlleiana headland, rises Dinas Gynfor - an Iron Age promontory fort whose three sea-cliff sides need no walls and whose landward side carries two sets of defensive banks and ditches. The interior has been quarried in places, complicating the a...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/llanbadrig-wp/gckz-llanbadrig-the-promontory-fort.mp3 0:06 3 full Llanbadrig: The Brickworks Below https://qualla.com/llanbadrig/ Photo credit Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. Two kilometres east of the church, at Porth Wen - 'White Bay' in English - the cliffs hold the substantial remains of a late-Victorian silica brickworks. Three brick beehive kilns, a chimney, the storage hopper, the incline tramroad from the quartzite quarries above: all stand es...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/llanbadrig-wp/gckz-llanbadrig-the-brickworks-below.mp3 0:06 4 full Llanbadrig: Cinema and Stranger Visitors https://qualla.com/llanbadrig/ Photo credit Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 2006 the headland appeared in the film Half Light, starring Demi Moore - a thriller ostensibly set in Scotland but shot at Llanbadrig because the location did the Scottish coast better than the actual one. The Welsh placename Llyn Padrig (Patrick's Lake) survives inland near A...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/llanbadrig-wp/gckz-llanbadrig-cinema-and-stranger-visitors.mp3 0:06 5 full