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Eglwysilan
Eglwysilan is an ecclesiastical parish and Hamlet (place), hamlet in Wales, within the Community (Wales), community of Aber Valley in the unitary authority of Caerphilly County Borough. History of the parish During the 12th-century Norman invasion of Wales, the formal parish was defined – an area of more than , including Caerphilly.History Page on official parish website accessed 30 January 2012 The parish church of Saint Ilan was built on the ridge between the Taff Valley and Aber Valley, on what was thought to have been the site of an earlier chapel or monastic cell. The parish website speculates that it may originally have been the home of a 6th-century monk. The site lies on the ancient pilgrimage route from Llantarnam to Penrhys. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eglwysilan - Church Of St Ilan - Geograph
Eglwysilan is an ecclesiastical parish and hamlet in Wales, within the community of Aber Valley in the unitary authority of Caerphilly County Borough. History of the parish During the 12th-century Norman invasion of Wales, the formal parish was defined – an area of more than , including Caerphilly.History Page on official parish website accessed 30 January 2012 The parish church of Saint Ilan was built on the ridge between the and Aber Valley, on what was thought to have been the site of an earlier chapel or monastic cell. The parish website speculates that it may originally have been the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Edwards (architect)
William Edwards (February 1719 – 7 August 1789) was a Welsh Methodist minister of religion, minister who also practised as a stonemason, architect and bridge engineer. Edwards was born the son of Edward David in Eglwysilan, Caerphilly County Borough in a small farmhouse, and began preaching in his early twenties. In 1745, he became joint pastor of a newly established Union of Welsh Independents, Independent chapel at Groeswen, remaining in the post until his death.''The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales''. John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg106 He taught himself the rudiments of masonry and at the age of 27 was commissioned to build a bridge over the Taff for £500 and to maintain it for 7 years. After several attempts he succeeded and went on to build further bridges across south Wales. On his death, he was buried in St Ilan's church in Eglwysilan, where his tomb is a grade II* listed structure. Three of his sons (Thomas, David and Edwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caerphilly
Caerphilly (, ; , ) is a town and community (Wales), community in Wales. It is situated at the southern end of the Rhymney Valley and separated from the Cardiff suburbs of Lisvane and Rhiwbina by Caerphilly Mountain. It is north of Cardiff and west of Newport, Wales, Newport. It is the largest town in Caerphilly County Borough and lies within the historic borders of Glamorgan, on the border with Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire. At the 2011 Census, the town had a population of 41,402 while the wider Caerphilly local authority area had a population of 178,806. Toponym The name of the town in Welsh, , means "the fort () of Ffili". Despite lack of evidence, tradition states that a monastery was built by St Cenydd, a sixth-century Celtic Christianity, Christian hermit from the Gower Peninsula, in the area. The Welsh cantref in the medieval period was known as Senghenydd. It is said that St Cenydd's son, St Ffili, built a fort in the area, giving the town its name. An al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Williams (philosopher)
David Williams (1738 – 29 June 1816) was a Welsh philosopher of the Enlightenment period. He was an ordained minister, theologian and political polemicist, and was the founder in 1788 of the Royal Literary Fund, of which he had been a proponent since 1773. Upbringing Williams was born in a house called Waun Waelod in Watford near Caerphilly. His early education was partly under John Smith, vicar of Eglwysilan, and he went on to a local school run by his namesake, David Williams. His father, William David, was converted to Methodism by Howell Harris; it was at his request that David Williams entered the ministry. Rev. David, an unfortunate speculator in mines and miners' tools, died in 1752; the family consisted of one surviving son and two daughters. His father on his deathbed made David promise to enter Carmarthen Academy to qualify as a dissenting minister. He studied there, with an exhibition from the London presbyterian board (1753 to Christmas 1757), under Evan Davies, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Elian (Wales)
Elian was a saint who founded a church in North Wales around the year 450. His feast day is 13 January. The legend of St. Elian says he was related to Isfael (another Welsh saint) and laboured in the missions of Cornwall, England. Tradition holds that he came by sea from Rome bringing with him oxen and other livestock and landed in Anglesey at Porth yr Yehen, where he built his church. One folk tale says he forbade the keeping of greyhounds after one killed or disturbed a List of animal names, doe in his care.Cambrian Archaeological Association (1876). ''Archaeologia cambrensis.'' W. Pickering According to tradition, Elian and Cybi, Saint Cybi used to meet at Llanfrydog, midway between Llanelian and Holyhead, to confer on religious matters. Saint Eilian was especially invoked for the healing of sick children. Llanelian Road in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, is named after him, as is St. Elian's Church in Llanelian. His nearby holy well, ''Ffynnon Elian'', was, at one time, one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elen (saint)
Saint Elen (, lit. "Helen of the Hosts"), often anglicized as Helen, was a late 4th-century founder of churches in Wales. Although never formally canonized by Rome, Elen is traditionally considered a saint in the Welsh Church; in English she is sometimes known as Saint Helen of Caernarfon to distinguish her from Saint Helena ("Helen of Constantinople"). Church tradition Traditionally, she is said to have been a daughter of the Romano-British ruler Octavius / Eudaf Hen (and therefore sister of Conan Meriadoc) and the wife of Magnus Maximus / Macsen Wledig, the 4th-century emperor in Britain, Gaul, and Spain who was killed in battle in 388.MacKillop, James. "Elen 1", '' A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology'', OUP, 2004 Elen was mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Bridge, Pontypridd
The Old Bridge (), which is now also known as the William Edwards Bridge or Pontypridd Bridge, was originally known as the New Bridge or Newbridge, is an arch bridge, arched single-span footbridge that spans the River Taff at Pontypridd in Wales. The bridge was built by William Edwards (architect), William Edwards and was completed in 1756. The bridge now has statutory protection as a scheduled monument, scheduled ancient monument and is grade I listed. Pontypridd In the early 18th century Pontypridd, then known as ('The bridge of the earthen house'), was a tiny Hamlet (place), hamlet. took its name from the original bridge of the same name, however very little is known of that ancient ford (crossing), ford with stepping stones, which ran alongside the current Old Bridge, and was used only when the river ran low. Possibly in 1744 or after the bridge was built, became known as ''Newbridge'' or ''New Bridge'' after the William Edwards Bridge. By 1856, Newbridge had been rena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Carlisle
Sir Nicholas Carlisle, Royal Guelphic Order, KH, Royal Society#Fellows, FRS, Royal Irish Academy, MRIA, (1771 in York, England – 27 August 1847 in Margate, England) was an English people, English antiquary and librarian. In 1806, he became a candidate for the office of Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries of London, Society of Antiquaries, which he obtained the following year. In 1812, he became an Assistant Librarian of the Royal Library, Windsor, Royal Library; he went on to accompany that collection to the British Museum, which he attended two days each week. He wrote several topography, topographical dictionary, dictionaries of England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland. He also wrote an historical account of Charitable Commissioners, and of Foreign Orders of Knighthood. Carlisle traced his descent from John Carlisle (d. 1670), of Witton-le-Wear. He was the son of Thomas Carlisle. His father married, first, Elizabeth Hutchinson; they had at least one child, a son, the surgeon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine I
Constantine I (27 February 27222 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. He played a Constantine the Great and Christianity, pivotal role in elevating the status of Christianity in Rome, Edict of Milan, decriminalising Christian practice and ceasing Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, Christian persecution. This was a turning point in the Historiography of the Christianization of the Roman Empire, Christianisation of the Roman Empire. He founded the city of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and made it the capital of the Empire, which it remained for over a millennium. Born in Naissus, a city located in the Roman province, province of Moesia Superior (now Niš, Serbia), Constantine was the son of Flavius Constantius, a Roman army officer from Moesia Superior, who would become one of the four emperors of the Tetrarchy. His mother, Helena, mother of Constantin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolauhirion Bridge
Dolauhirion Bridge () is a single arch stone bridge which carries road traffic from Llandovery to Cilycwm over the River Towy () in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is a grade I listed structure. At the time the bridge was built the road was the main coach road from Llandovery to Lampeter. Various wooden bridges had stood at the site until the present stone bridge was built in 1773 by the minister and bridge builder William Edwards. He had built several single arch stone bridges in Wales, particularly at Pontypridd, where he had constructed what was then the biggest single arch () in the world. The Dolauhirion bridge has a span of and a carriageway width of with parapets. Typical of Edward's designs the bridge has circular openings in the spandrel A spandrel is a roughly triangular space, usually found in pairs, between the top of an arch and a rectangular frame, between the tops of two adjacent arches, or one of the four spaces between a circle within a square. They are freq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena (empress)
Flavia Julia Helena (; , ''Helénē''; – 330), also known as Helena of Constantinople and in Christianity as Saint Helena, was an '' Augusta'' of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great. She was born in the lower classes'' Anonymus Valesianus'1.2 "Origo Constantini Imperatoris". traditionally in the city of Drepanon, Bithynia, in Asia Minor, which was renamed Helenopolis. Helena ranks as an important figure in the history of Christianity. In her final years, she made a religious tour of Syria Palaestina and Jerusalem, during which ancient tradition claims that she discovered the True Cross. The Eastern Orthodox Church, Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Anglican Communion, and the Lutheran Church revere her as a saint. Early life Though Helena's birthplace is not known with certainty, Helenopolis, then Drepanon, in Bithynia, following Procopius, is the one supported by most secondary sources, and by far the most likely candidate f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
