Church of St Mary - Churchyard - Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
N 51° 26.056 W 003° 26.296
30U E 469535 N 5698209
The Medieval Church of St. Mary, is located in an overgrown spinney. it is thought may have been a burial ground from the sixth century.
The Church is surrounded by graves, from the 17th,18th Century many stones are just leaning against the church.
Waymark Code: WMK3QT
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/08/2014
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The village of St Mary Church (Llanfair) is named after the parish Church which dominates the centre of the Village. The Norman Church originally built in the 13th century, has been a site of worship for over 800 years.
The parish church is now sparsely surrounded by mostly ancient, graves from the 16th Century, and some modern graves.
This Parish church is a Church in Wales denomination, in the Rectorial Benefice of Cowbridge, in the Dioceses of Llandaff.
Parish Web site
"The Church's medieval origin is evidenced by the Norman door and the font and by the fact that in the churchyard there is a calvary of three steps surmounted by the socket stone of a medieval Latin cross. The Church has an unusual chancel because it weeps to the south, whereas normally weeping chancels angle towards the north.
The fact that the Church is dedicated to Mary (Mair in Welsh) confirms that the Church was built by the Normans following their successful conquest of large parts of South Wales in the 11th and 12th centuries. Other Vale villages and their churches, such as St Athan, were named after the Irish saints (Tathan) who first brought Christianity to the area around the 5th and 6th centuries AD. Other local churches were dedicated to the Welsh saints such as St. Docco or Dochau (Llandough) or St Illtyd (Llantwit Major). It is likely that the Norman Church replaced an earlier Celtic foundation." text Source: (
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