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Benefice of LLANDRINDOD AND LLANVAELON

(DA.BC.MA.10) variants

This figure is the total assessed value of the benefice. Note that for a cathedral church a zero figure is given because its assessed value is derived from a number of holdings which are listed elsewhere in the taxatio text.

     Assessment for tax:		 £ 4. 3s. 4d.

This section gives the modern name of the benefice together with the church dedication and the Ordnance Survey grid reference of the church (click the grid reference to locate the church building on Google Maps). Constituent parts of the benefice, such as vicarage, or any dependent chapels, pensions, portions and prebends, with their values, are also listed here.

     Benefice details:
LLANDRINDOD
SO064601 ded: HOLY TRINITY     
LLANVAELON ded: ST MAELON     

This section shows the patronage status of the benefice in 1291-2, the date of the taxatio, as much as can be found in contemporary or near-contemporary sources. The line includes the type of patronage: ecclesiastical, monastic or secular; the name of the patron; and for monastic patrons, the order of their religious house. If the patronage is ecclesiastical or monastic, then it may be an appropriated church. This is shown by the "If Appropriated" line below.

     Patronage:
ecclesiastical, St Davids, Pembroke, bishop, 1     

This section states whether or not the benefice was appropriated at or near 1291-2, the date of the taxatio. The line may include the type of position instituted, collated or presented and the date, but this information is shown only if available from contemporary or near-contemporary sources.

     If appropriated:
No 1283

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     Full entry:
Ecclesia de Lando et Lanvayloir 2     
variants
£ 4. 3s. 4d.
6.2m.

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     Notes:
1 The churches of 'Lando' and 'Lannaylon' were among the churches given by the bishop in 1283 to form prebends in his college at Llangadog, the precursor of Abergwili (MonAng6 1332, and see DA.BC.EL.03). (It should be noted that the version of the 1283 text in PrynneRecords 325 links the two names with an 'et' and does not separate them as in MonAng6 1332.) For the prebendary in 1331 see MenevSac 423, MonAng6 1376-7. The king presented in 1353 to the Abergwili prebend of 'Landon and Landovaelou' because of an episcopal vacancy (CalPat1350-54 467), and the bishop is recorded as collating to the Abergwili prebend of 'Llando et Llandovaylou' in 1399 and 1400 (RegStDavids1 112, 152).     
2 This was a single benefice of two churches. There can be no doubt about the identification of the first church as Llandrindod. The site of the second church has not been identified: a dependent chapel of Llandrindod is given as Llanvaelon and exinct (dedication: St Maelon) in Wade-EvansPW 45; and this is perhaps derived, at least in part, from WilliamsRad 273-4 ('the foundation and walls of a very ancient chapel, named Llanfaelog, ... were a short time ago dug up in the centre of a corn-field'). The implication (as in EvansPlate 53 n.9) that this chapel may have been at Cae Bach, some 3km to the north of Llandrindod, appears to be unsubstantiated.     

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