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Pendar/Mynachdy Grange

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 00554m
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Ynysybwl and Coed-y-cwm
Unitary authority : Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
NGR : ST04739512
Site Type (preferred type first) : MEDIEVAL GRANGE / Medieval Ecclesiastical building

Summary :
Possible site of Medieval Cistercian Grange, possible pre 1147 priory, based on documentary and place-name evidence.

Description :
Grant of land to 'Brothers of Pendar', mid-late 12th century; Pendar suggested as on summit ridge of Mynydd Merthyr - Cefnpennar (unprovenanced typescript in SMR); tentatively identified with Mynachdy at NGR given.

Most recent interpretation as an attempt to found a daughter house by Margam (Cowley, 1977 23-4, 27).

RCAHMW (1982, 295-6 MG42) notes it as a possession of Margam, and Williams (2001, 304-5) as one of Llantarnam.

Pierce (2002, 72-4) rejects the association of Capel Fanhalog (PRN 01811m) with the monastic site both on placename grounds and because it is documented as a Methodist chapel, for which the land was leased in 1789.

Evans 2003: GGAT 73 Early-Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites Project database

Medieval monastic grange associated with Llantarnam Abbey. Pendar may have relocated to Llanwonno/Mynachdy on the basis of documentary evidence and the area corresponds to the later Mynachdy Farm (Hall and Sambrook 2015).

Upland grange, possible originally the site of Pendar Abbey, near Ynys-y-bwl at the head of a tributary of the Taff above Pontypridd. Area known as Glynmynarch ('valley of the monks') (Procter 2018).

Sources :
Cowley, F G , 1977 , The monastic order in South Wales 1066-1349
Hall, J. and Sambrook, P. , 2015 , Mynachdy, Heol y Mynachdy, Pontypridd, Historic Environment Assessment
Pierce, G O , 2002 , The place-names of Glamorgan
Procter, E. , 2018 , The topographical legacy of the medieval monastery: evolving perceptions and realities of monastic landscapes in the southern Welsh Marches
RCAHMW , 1982 , Glamorgan: Medieval Non-defensive Secular Monuments
03/PM Desc Text//Knowles & Hadcock/Med Relig Houses/p.120;
02/PM Map//Rees W 1932/S Wales and Border in C14th/SE Sheet;
01/MM Record Card/OS//1957/ST 09 NW 16/;
390-1;
06/Desc Text//Knowles & Hadcock/1957/Engl Hist Review/Vol 72 p.64;
04/PH Desc Text//Birch W de G/1897/Hist of Margam Abbey/pp 8-20;
05/PM Desc Text//Corbett JS/1914/Archaeol Cambrensis/Vol 14 pp 384-5
07/PM Desc Text/RCAHM//1978/Monastic Granges/
Evans EM, 2003-04, GGAT 73 Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites Project

Events :
E005930 : Mynachdy, Heol y Mynachdy, Pontypridd (year : 2015)

Related records
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 00624g
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 01811m
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 08701m

Compiled date : 12-03-2004


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