This ancient site has a potential timeline dating back as far as the Bronze Age. Certainly pre Christian and possibly an Iron Age settlement, it later became known as a burial place of Saints.
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A typical little Welsh church, looking as though it has grown out of the bones of the hillside, with some striking medieval stained glass and seventeenth-century woodwork.
This tiny, plain stone roofed building is about 11 feet by 8 feet altogether with walls two feet thick. It is said to date from the Middle Ages, though there was obviously a chapel or hermit's cell on this site before that. Inside, under the altar, is St Trillo's holy well.
The church is first recorded in the Taxatio of 1291 as the ‘Eccl'ia de Landervael. The present church is an early Tudor rebuilding, probably of the early 16th century and is a single chamber parish church.
This church is dedicated to Derfel Gadarn (Derfel the Mighty) a warrior saint of the 6th century. A shrine was also dedicated to him on the slopes of Mynydd Maen. This shrine belonged to the religious house of Llantarnam.
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