Saint Tyssil

Old St Tysul's Church, Llandyssil c1855. Engraving from a drawing by Harry Longville Jones. Arch Camb, 1884, pg 91

Saint Tyssil was a 5th-century Pre-congregational saint of North Wales and Patron Saint of Llandyssil,[1] in Powys, Wales. He was also a Bishop of Cardiganshire.[2][3] His Feast Day is Jan 31st.[4][5][6]

Life

His full name was Tysul ap Corun ap Cunedda - or in English Tyssul son of Corun, son of Cunedda and he was born c.462AD. He died 554AD and today he is remembered in the Church, Parish and town of Llandyssil, and the 13th century church of Llandysul in Ceredigion.

Tyssils Church

Saint Tyssil built a church in Llandyssil, Powys.[7] It was located on a hillside to the South east of the village.[8] and today its remains are still within a roughly circular graveyard, which is still in use. The South porch is the only surviving part of St. Tyssils church, which was replaced in 1866AD by a new church on the North West side of the village. His church was renowned for its timber belfry,[9] and there was strong contemporary feeling against its demolition and replacement.[10][11][12][13] ">[14]

Gallery

References

New Church of St Tyssil.
  1. ↑ Bartrum P C “A Welsh Classical Dictionary: People in History and Legend up to about A.D. 1000”, National Library of Wales, 1993, 630. Tysul’s full name was Tysul ap Corun ap Cunedda - or son of Corun, son of Cunedda
  2. ↑ page 219.
  3. ↑ The Cambrian register (Google eBook) 1818.
  4. ↑ George William Manby, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Saint David, South-Wales (Harding, 1801) page 121.
  5. ↑ page 219.
  6. ↑ Thomas D R, The History of the Diocese of St Asaph, Vol I, (Caxton Press, Oswestry 1908) 2 ed. page 524.
  7. ↑ Llandyssil.com
  8. ↑ Old Church Of Saint Tyssil.
  9. ↑ Pickering, W., Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1904 pages125-132 and 269-272.
  10. ↑ Haslam R, (Powys), Buildings of Wales series, 1979,p 126;
  11. ↑ H.L.J, 'Llandyssul Church, Montgomeryshire' Archaeologia Cambrensis, Series iii, Vol. X, 1864, pp 125-8
  12. ↑ Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, Parish of Llandyssil, Parish Church of St Tyssil, Bethesda Presbyterian Chapel, Moriah Presbyterian Chapel: Memorial Inscriptions (Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, 1996).
  13. ↑ PowysRichard Haslam Yale University Press, 1 Jan 1979 page 126.
  14. ↑ Bartrum P C “A Welsh Classical Dictionary: People in History and Legend up to about A.D. 1000”, National Library of Wales, 1993, 630.