Qualla: St Cadwaladr's Church https://qualla.com/st-cadwaladr-s-church 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/y/st-cadwaladr-s-church-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: St Cadwaladr's Church https://qualla.com/st-cadwaladr-s-church St Cadwaladr's Church: Introduction https://qualla.com/st-cadwaladr-s-church/ Photo credit Monsyn, CC BY-SA 4.0. Around AD 615 the kings of Gwynedd established a royal monastery on a slight rise above the south coast of Anglesey. The man whose name the church carries was not yet born. Cadwaladr ap Cadwallon - 'Cadwaladr the Blessed' - was the grandson of Cadfan ap Iago, the king buried beneath one of the oldest inscribed stones in Wales. Cadwaladr would in time become a king himself, retreat to this monastery as a monk, and die in Rome of plague in 664. His body, by tradition, was brought back to Anglesey and laid to rest at the foundation his grandfather had patronised. The church was renamed in his honour. Welsh tradition, more romantically, remembered him as the last king of all the Britons - the final ruler before Saxon dominance reshaped the island for good.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/st-cadwaladr-s-church-wp/gcky-st-cadwaladrs-church-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full St Cadwaladr's Church: The Catamanus Stone https://qualla.com/st-cadwaladr-s-church/ Photo credit Richard Keatinge, CC BY-SA 4.0. What survives most powerfully from the earliest church is a stone. Cadfan ap Iago - Cadwaladr's grandfather - died around 625 and was buried here. His tombstone, inscribed in Latin, calls him CATAMANUS REX SAPIENTISIMUS OPINATISIMUS OMNIUM REGUM, 'Cadfan the king, wisest and most...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/st-cadwaladr-s-church-wp/gcky-st-cadwaladrs-church-the-catamanus-stone.mp3 0:06 2 full St Cadwaladr's Church: Building Over the Centuries https://qualla.com/st-cadwaladr-s-church/ Photo credit Monsyn, CC BY-SA 4.0. The current structure tells the standard story of a Welsh parish church that mattered to wealthy patrons. The nave is 12th- or early 13th-century work. The chancel was added in the 14th. A stained glass window installed in 1485, restored in 1850, still glows in the chancel east w...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/st-cadwaladr-s-church-wp/gcky-st-cadwaladrs-church-building-over-the-centuries.mp3 0:06 3 full St Cadwaladr's Church: Meyricks and Memorials https://qualla.com/st-cadwaladr-s-church/ Photo credit Monsyn, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Meyrick family of Bodorgan Hall - the same estate that would host the wartime RAF Bodorgan airfield nearly three centuries later - are written into the fabric of this church. Their chapel records their construction in plaques. A vault beneath one plaque holds Richard's great-...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/st-cadwaladr-s-church-wp/gcky-st-cadwaladrs-church-meyricks-and-memorials.mp3 0:06 4 full St Cadwaladr's Church: Bro Cadwaladr https://qualla.com/st-cadwaladr-s-church/ Photo credit Monsyn, CC BY-SA 4.0. The church is Grade I listed and remains in active use today as part of the Bro Cadwaladr benefice, sharing a priest with seven other churches in the local area. It still works as a place of worship - which is, in some ways, the most remarkable thing about it. A foundation made i...

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