St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen

St Edwen's Church is in the south of Anglesey, north Wales, in a rural area known as Llanedwen. It is about 5 mi from the county town of Llangefni, about 1 mi from the A4080 road between Llanfairpwllgwyngyll and Brynsiencyn and about 250 metres (270 yds) from the Menai Strait that separates Anglesey from the rest of Wales. The area of Llanedwen takes its name from the church: the Welsh word originally meant "enclosure" and then "church". According to the 19th-century Anglesey historian Angharad Llwyd, the first church in the area was established by St Edwen in 640. Llwyd described the church in 1833 as "a small but neat edifice, of great antiquity". In 1840, the church was rebuilt by John…

St Edwen's is built from local red gritstone, formed into square blocks and dressed with sandstone. The roof is made from slate with stone edging. The church, which is in the Late Decorated style, has a tower topped with a broach spire at the north-west corner of the nave, supported by buttresses. The church is entered through a porch with an arched doorway in the lowest of the three stages of the tower. A survey of church plate within the Bangor diocese in 1906 recorded an engraved chalice dated 1842 and a paten dated 1776–77; both are made from silver and are decorated with foliage. A silver flagon bears an inscription to denote that it was given by William Bulkeley Hughes when the new…