Saint Peirio

The church from the south-west, showing the porch to the left

Saint Peirio was a 6th-century pre-congregational saint of Wales and a child of King Caw of Strathclyde.[1]

In 605AD[2] he founded a church at Rhosbeirio[3] on Anglesey Island, North Wales.[4] Writing in 1861, Harry Longueville Jones said of St Peirio's church that it was "one of the humblest ecclesiastical buildings in Anglesey" and that there were "no architectural features in this church worthy of delineation."[5]

References

  1. ↑ Rev Rice Rees, Welsh Saints or Primitive Christians usually considered to be Founders of Churches in Wales (Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green, 1836)
  2. ↑ Lewis, Samuel (1849). "Rhôsbeirio, or Rhôs-Peirio (Rhôsbeirio)". A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, (1849). Retrieved 11 January 2011.
  3. ↑ Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire (1968) [1937]. "Rhosbeirio". An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Anglesey. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 144.
  4. ↑ Longueville Jones, Harry (1861). "Mona Mediaeva No. XXV". Archaeologia Cambrensis. 3rd (Cambrian Archaeological Association) VII: 294–295.
  5. ↑ Longueville Jones, Harry (1861). "Mona Mediaeva No. XXV". Archaeologia Cambrensis. 3rd (Cambrian Archaeological Association) VII: 294–295.