. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . )art of the history of the cathedral, we can only beginwith they say, referring to the old Llyfr Coch, or the later writers BrowneWillis and Edwards, and various scattered notices, most of Avhich are mentionedin the carefully-compiled history of the diocese of St. Asaph, by ArchdeaconThomas, to whom I am indebted for nmch kind assistance. If St. Asaph was ever a fortified position, as is stated in one olddocument, the vallum probably ran just within the palace grounds, and turnedup across the hill, so
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . )art of the history of the cathedral, we can only beginwith they say, referring to the old Llyfr Coch, or the later writers BrowneWillis and Edwards, and various scattered notices, most of Avhich are mentionedin the carefully-compiled history of the diocese of St. Asaph, by ArchdeaconThomas, to whom I am indebted for nmch kind assistance. If St. Asaph was ever a fortified position, as is stated in one olddocument, the vallum probably ran just within the palace grounds, and turnedup across the hill, so as to include the corner of the kitchen-garden on the. THE INTEUIOK, LOOKING WEST.(From a Photograph by F. Bedford, by permission of Messrs. Catherall and Prichard.) south side of the cathedral—as there is certainly an aitificially made terrace orrectangular earthwork along those lines. The story goes that Kentigern, driven from somewhere in Strathclyde aboutthe year 560, went to St. Davids, from which he organised a missionaryexpedition into the vale of Clwyd, and having overcome the opposition ofMaelgwyn, or Maelgwn, erected a church, with monastic buildings attached, atwhat is now known as St. Asaph, but was at lirst called Llanelwy, the churchon the Elwy, by which name it is always known in the vernacular. H II 258 CATHEDRAL CHURCHES. [St. Asaph. Century after century rolled by, and in the cliurcli of Llanelwy, whether thesolemn chant may have arisen from day to day, and the monks have lived alife of contemplation in its quiet cloisters, or whether its precincts may haveoften witnessed the clash of arms and the revelry of victorious
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