Y Wenhwyseg
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Y Wenhwyseg
@wenhwyseg.bsky.social
Yn astudio a wilia yn Wenhwyseg. Studying and speaking Gwentian - the South-Eastern form of Welsh.
Beneath the window is an inscription, which, when the window was perfect, read: “Sanctus Gwinocus, cujus animae propitietur Deus. Amen.”
It was erected in the fourteenth century.

The church still stands in Cornwall:
stwinnowchurch.org.uk
St Winnow Parish Church in Cornwall
St Winnow is a friendly and welcoming family church on the banks of the Fowey River, with St Nectan's Chapel nearby; both with hundreds of years of history
stwinnowchurch.org.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Llanwnog, in mid-Wales, claims Gwynnog for its founder - and in the chancel window he is represented in stained glass in episcopal habit, mitred, and a pastoral staff in his hand.
October 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
He seems to have established a large ecclesiastical tribe, as he had churches at Winnow, Pinnock, and Boconnock (Bodd-Gwynnoc). When Saint Samson, son of Amwn Ddu, came to Cornwall on his way to Brittany, after visiting Saint Petrock - he then was visited by Saint Gwynnog.
October 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
He was a follower of Saint Cadoc, and he settled near the Fowey river, where already was a plantation of Veep, where his aunt on his father’s side lived. There he established a llan, now called Lanngunnet.
October 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
wot no Rogers?
October 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It was the same for most of the country! 🙂
October 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
There are a huge amount of Iron Age settlements around 🙂

It's primarily why the Legionary fortress is built here - the Romans very well knew that they would need an uneasy peace.

They did after all defeat a Legion in AD52!
September 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Eventually settlements were founded in AD75 (Caerwent & Caerleon) under Sextus Julius Frontinus.

Tacitus recorded that the Silures "non atrocitate, non clementia mutabatur" – they were "changed neither by cruelty nor by clemency".

We have a trait of us 'doing our own thing'.
September 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM