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From: "Pauline James" <>
Subject: [CmnFHS] RE: Transcription
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 05:13:59 +0100


Hi Sian

Can I ask you a big favour again - a fellow member named Roger Thomas asked
if i could transcribe the following inscription from a family gravestone.

Oi dywydd galwyd Ioan, ei enaid
A laniodd yn Nghanaan
Er ei roi ir oer raian
Daw ar leb Mab Duw ir lan


Could you help Sian - I can't do this one

thanks your a great help to us and I really do appreciate it....

Pauline

-----Original Message-----
From: Sian Bowi [mailto:]
Sent: 07 September 1999 21:50
To:
Subject: RE: [CmnFHS] Fw: Up & Running at Last



Well done Richard and Pauline on your latest addition to the web pages.
You must have had a very enjoyable time in driving around the county and
photographing the churches.

I was quite surprised that you managed to find Cilrhedyn church. I visited
the church for the first time last year and had quite a shock to find it in
such a dilapitated state. Such a shame.
My mother was christened there and used to attend the church regularly as a
child.

Fenton wrote the following about the church in his Tour through
Pembrokeshire:
'the church, though a very undignified structure, is large, and has two or
three aisles evidently of a later date than the body of the church, which
wears a most antique look, and is reputed to have been founded and endowed
by Cadifor Fawr, one of the nobles of Dyfed, who stretched his feudal
sceptre over this upland region. Over the entrance to the church there is
an old Greek inscription, indicative of its sacred character.'

If any lister knows of, or has a photograph of the church in its former
glory, I would love to hear from them.

Best wishes,
Sian Bowi

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