Qualla: Llaneilian https://qualla.com/llaneilian 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/llaneilian-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Llaneilian https://qualla.com/llaneilian Llaneilian: Introduction https://qualla.com/llaneilian/ Photo credit Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0. Inside St Eilian's Church at Llaneilian, a 15th-century wall painting depicts a skeleton carrying a scythe. Beneath it runs a Welsh inscription: Colyn angau yw pechod - 'sin is the sting of death.' The phrase comes from 1 Corinthians 15, and the figure is a memento mori of the sort that survived the Reformation only in remote rural churches where iconoclasts never quite got round to whitewashing the walls. Beyond the painting, in the same building, stands a 15th-century rood screen of carved oak - one of the most complete in north Wales - and a 12th-century tower attached to a 14th-century chapel. The church is Grade I listed. It sits in a parish on Anglesey's north-east coast that also takes in the dramatic lighthouse at Point Lynas, the offshore refuge tower of Ynys Dulas, and the supposed site of a 5th-century royal court.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/llaneilian-wp/gckz-llaneilian-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Llaneilian: Eilian and the Skeleton https://qualla.com/llaneilian/ Photo credit Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0. Saint Eilian, also called Eilianus or Eilian of Rome, came from Italy to Britain in the sixth century and lived as a hermit on this north Anglesey coast. His feast day is 13 January. The church bearing his name is a Celtic clas church - a kind of monastic college - whose tower da...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/llaneilian-wp/gckz-llaneilian-eilian-and-the-skeleton.mp3 0:06 2 full Llaneilian: Llys Caswallon https://qualla.com/llaneilian/ Photo credit User: (WT-shared) Paul. at wts wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 1.0. Half a mile from the church, in a field near Mynydd Eilian, a faint earthwork marks what tradition holds to be the court of Cadwallon Lawhir ap Einion, fifth-century King of Gwynedd. He was the grandson of Cunedda, the founder of the Gwynedd royal dynasty. The site appears on an ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/llaneilian-wp/gckz-llaneilian-llys-caswallon.mp3 0:06 3 full Llaneilian: Point Lynas and the Refuge Tower https://qualla.com/llaneilian/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. At the north-eastern tip of the parish, the headland of Point Lynas carries a lighthouse unusual in not having a tower - the light sits on top of a building set on the hilltop itself, high enough that no additional height is needed. The first Mersey Docks and Harbour Board light ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/llaneilian-wp/gckz-llaneilian-point-lynas-and-the-refuge-tower.mp3 0:06 4 full Llaneilian: Stained Glass from Burnt Churches https://qualla.com/llaneilian/ Photo credit Bob Shires, CC BY-SA 2.0. Down at Dulas, St Gwenllwyfo's Church was built in the mid-nineteenth century by the Bangor architect Henry Kennedy. It is Grade II* listed, and what makes it remarkable lies in its windows. The nave and chancel hold fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Flemish stained glass, removed...

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