St Fflewin's Church

St Fflewin, to whom the church is dedicated, was a Christian who was active in the 6th century. He is described as the son of Ithel Hael, who came to Britain from Armorica (present-day northern France) towards the end of the 5th century. He established a Christian site at the location of the present church in 630 (according to the Diocese of Bangor and a 2006 guide to the churches of Anglesey), although a 19th-century guide to Wales by the writer Samuel Lewis says that it was sometime early in the 7th century.|group="note"}} in 1864 and further restored during the 1930s. The church is isolated, located in the countryside of north Anglesey by a farm, about 1 mi from Llanrhuddlad, in an area…

The church, which is small and rectangular, has no internal division between the nave and the chancel. It is built of rubble masonry, and the roof is made of slate; there is a gabled bellcote at the west end of the roof. The roof timbers can be seen from the inside. Entrance to the church is through a porch with a rounded arch at the west end of the south wall, and there is a vestry, with one window, at the west end of the north wall. The windows in the south and north walls are rectangular pairs; the window in the east wall is in the form of a rounded arch, with two lights (sections of window separated by mullions). The sill of the window has a fragment of a medieval gravestone (dating…