The neck of the promontory thus caused is shown on the tithe map as partly cut off by a curvilinear boundary represented by two field boundaries, which run across the track to the church, but have now been almost entirely obliterated by the M4 motorway. “The church had a double enclosure with an inner and an outer enclosure, shaped to fit within a meander of the River Loughor. Its Medieval name as Lan Teiliauo Talypont, built about 655 and mentioned on the first page of the Llandaff Charters (LL 1) 80. This stone is the only “hard” evidence of the date of the church.įrom the Llandaff Charters, Professor Wendy Davies identifies the church of Llandeilo Talybont as 7th Century. The experts believe the stone to be C7th, which is close to Teilo’s time. When the old church was dismantled in order for it to be moved it to St Fagan’s, they found a stone built into the wall with a simple cross on it. If St Teilo had built it, it should originate from the C6th. Nobody knows the age of the original church.
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