Welsh built Abbey as big as Canterbury and Salisbury Cathedrals

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 Welsh built Abbey as big as Canterbury and Salisbury Cathedrals

The Kings and princes of medieval Wales built many grand abbeys but none would be more grand than Abaty Cwm Hir

This was the largest abbey in Wales but was never completed.

Its fourteen-bay nave was longer than Canterbury and Salisbury Cathedral naves and twice as long as that at St. Davids.

The princes of Gwynedd gave the monastery their patronage, and twice in the 13th century the abbey granges were burnt by English soldiers, and in 1231 the abbot was also fined £200 for aiding the Welsh cause in helping Llywelyn ab Iorwerth destroy an English force near Hay on Wye.

The headless body of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, was buried in the abbey after his death nearby in December 1282.

These rulers built abbeys, castles and churches all over Wales, something often overlooked for the Norman buildings. The Normans built the highest concentration of castles in Europe in Wales. but no religious building built by the Normans in Wales could match Abaty Cwm Hir





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