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Benefice of LLANTRISANT

(LL.LL.LL.15) 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:
£ 24. 0s. 0d.

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:
LLANTRISANT
ST0468341 ded: ST ILLTYD, ST GWYNNO AND ST TYFODWG     
YSTRADDYFODWG     (dependent chapel)
SS9719542 ded: ST JOHN THE BAPTIST      ST TYVODWG     
LLANTWIT FARDRE     (dependent chapel)
ST081866 ded: ST ILLTYD     
ABERDARE     (dependent chapel)
SO000026 ded: ST JOHN      ST JOHN THE BAPTIST     
LLANWONNO     (dependent chapel)
ST030956 ded: ST GWYNNO     

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:
secular, Gilbert de Clare , Earl of Gloucester and Hertford 3     

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     Full entry:
Ecclesia de Lantrissen cum capell' 4     
variants
£ 24. 0s. 0d.
36m.

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     Notes:
1 Concerning the three saints to whom this church is dedicated see Wade-EvansPW 67 n.1.     
2 The present parish church of St John has been built on the site of the medieval church of Ystraddyfodwg.     
3 The king presented to this church in 1290 when the lands of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, were in his hands: CalPat1281-92 353. The advowson passed to Hugh le Dispenser, the younger, in 1317: ClarkCartae3 1055-6.     
4 It is not clear whether the phrase 'cum capell'' consciously refers to one chapel or more; but there were perhaps four chapels attached to this church: Ystraddyfodwg, Llantwit-Fardre, Aberdare and Llanwonno (GreenNotes 64). And for the chapels attached to the church 1148 X 1183 see ReesCardiff 143.     

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