page_title: Llandyssil
section_title: Connection with Celtic saints
hierarchical_section_title: Llandyssil / Connection with Celtic saints
caption_attribution_description: English: St Tysul's Church, Llandyssil c1855. Engraing from a drawing by Harry Longville Jones. Archaeologia Cambrensis, Vol 1, fifth ser.1884, pg 91
context_page_description: Llandyssil is a village in Powys, Wales, about two miles from the town of Montgomery.
  The village is part of the Llandyssil community. In 2001 there were 420 inhabitants in the parish, of whom 300 lived in the village itself.
context_section_description: Llandyssil takes its name from St Tysul, a little known Welsh saint of the 7th century AD. Only two churches in Wales were dedicated to this saint, Llandyssil in Montgomeryshire and Llandysul in Ceredigion, and the feast day for this saint was celebrated on 31 January. The old church in the village (largely demolished in 1866) stood in the graveyard to the SE of the present village. This suggests that the present settlement dates back to the period around 700AD. There is also a connection with another early Welsh and Breton saint, St Padarn.  On the highland to the south in Cefn y Coed is the farm Cwm Badarn. The Llandyssil Brook rises in this Cwm or valley, and between Cwm Badarn Farm and the Pinion is a rock cut spring, that was possibly a Holy Well, dedicated to St Padarn.
caption: Old St Tysul's Church, Llandyssil c.1855. From a drawing by Harry Longville Jones.
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