2024

ST. BRYNACH'S CHURCH

Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels

Beautiful church. The main tower dates from the 6th century and was built by the Normans, while the rest of the building dates from the 15th century. Celtic chiefs and priests were of equal status and it was customary for the chief to give the priest a piece of land with a stream or other watercourse as a boundary, to build a church on. It's the case at Nevern.

In the church is the "Vitalianus Stone" (a tablet dating from the 5th century with inscriptions in Ogham, an old Celtic alphabet of Irish origin, and in Latin)

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