Mynachlog Fawr / Abaty Ystrad Fflur / Mynachlogvawr / Strata Florida / Ystrad Fflur
Image copyright © August Schwerdfeger, 2014
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "The iconic arch at the ruined entrance of Strata Florida Abbey, a Cistercian foundation in Wales."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © August Schwerdfeger, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2014 by August Schwerdfeger [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strata_Florida_entrance_arch_2014-09-09.jpg] [accessed 21 January 2020]
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view of church exterior - west view - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Strata Florida Abbey, Wales. Westelijke toegang van de kerk."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Otter, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2017 by Otter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strata_Florida_Abbey_20171018_west_entrance_of_church.jpg] [accessed 21 January 2020]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Strata Florida Abbey, Wales. In de kerk kijkende naar het schip in het westen vanuit het koor (midden in de kerk, tussen de transepten)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Otter, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2017 by Otter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strata_Florida_Abbey_20171018_church_from_choir_looking_west.jpg] [accessed 21 January 2020]
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view of church interior - plan
Scene Description: the abbey church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1 August 1887 drawing by Stephen W. William, in The Cistercian Abbey of Strata Florida: Its History, and an Account of the Recent Excavations Made on Its Site (London: Whiting & Co., 1889) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Cistercian_Abbey_of_Strata_Florida-Cloister.png] [accessed 21 January 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22563MYN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Mary [originally Cistercian abbey church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Abbey Rd, Ystrad Fflur, Ystrad Meurig, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Ceredigion
Directions to Site: The site of the old abbey is located just E of Pontrhydfendigaid and the B4343, 10-12 km NE of Tregaron
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of St Davids]
Historical Region: formerly Cardiganshire
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Church Notes: abbey church demolished at the Dissolution
Font Notes:
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[NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century abbey church here or of the later parish church said to have re-used some of the abbey church materials in its construction].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.27218, -3.842993
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 16′ 19.85″, 3° 50′ 34.78″ W
UTM: 30U 442480 5791646