Event detail for site:

pre 1282: Foundation

According to the sixteenth-century antiquary, John Leland (d. 1552), there was a Cistercian house at Clynnog Fawr that was later a collegiate church. However more substantial evidence for its Cistercian identity is lacking.

If there was ever a Cistercian house at Clynnog Fawr it did not have a long monastic life for by 1291 it was a collegiate church.

People associated with this event

John Leland , antiquary, poet

Bibliographical sources

Printed sources

Medieval Religious Houses, England and Wales, ed. R. Neville Hadcock and David Knowles (Harlow, 1971) pp. 112, 117