"The church, dedicated to St. Michael, having fallen into decay, was
rebuilt in the Grecian style in 1773, at the expense of the inhabitants,
principally from the ruins of the ancient abbey of Talley, the nave of which
formed the old church and of which there are still some remains within the
burial-ground, consisting of half the tower and other considerable portions.
The present is a neat edifice and contains some monumental inscriptions,
including a mural tablet to the memory of Sir Nicholas Williams, an ancestor
of Sir James Hamlyn Williams, Bart. The area, exclusively of the chancel, is
fifty feet long by thirty wide and, being all pewed, contains between 300 and
400 sittings, which belong to the rate-payers, except two and the seats of
the gallery, which are free. There were formerly five chapels of ease, but of
none are there at present any remains; memorials of two are preserved in
the names of small patches of ground, one being called Mynwent Capel
Llanvihangel, “the churchyard of St. Michael’s chapel,” and the other,
Mynwent Capel Crist, “the churchyard of Christ’s chapel.”
In the parish are places of worship for Baptists and Calvinistic Methodists" Text Source: (
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Talley Abbey Information:
"Set in beautiful hills, at the head of the Talley Lakes, the abbey at Talley is unique in Wales in being founded for the monastic order of the Premonstratensians, or White Canons. The cannons had a constitution and way of life based on Cistercian lines, even adopting the same white habit, but followed the Augustinian cannons in their undertaking of duties within the parish. The order was well supported in England at the end of the 12th century, and Henry II's chief justiciar, Ranulf de Glanville, was prominent among its patrons. It may have been this man who influenced Rhys ap Gruffydd, the Lord Rhys, in his choice of the White Canons for the new house which he founded at Talley in the late 1180s, a time of peace and concord between the Welsh prince and the English crown. The downfall of Ranulf soon afterwards may in turn had some bearing on the fact that no other Premonstratensian houses were ever founded in Wales, and that Talley was only poorly endowed". Source: (
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