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St Tysilio's Church - Menai Bridge - The Church, the Island and the Belgian Promenade

St Tysilio's Church sits on a small island in the Menai Strait. It is near to 53°13′24″N , 004°10′14″W, OS grid SH 551 717, What three words //cases.koala.alleyway. The postal code is LL59 5EA. The island is reached by a short causeway from the Belgian Promenade below the town. The site is associated with the 7th-century saint Tysilio who is said to have founded a hermitage on the island around c.590–630;. The building that you see today is medieval and probably dates to the early 15th century, with a recorded late-19th century restoration and an east window rebuilt in 1896 and incorporating stained glass. The church is of simple rectangular form, with a chancel and nave, it retains a rare C15 cruck (three-truss) roof and an octagonal 14th century font. Internally there are memorial plaques (one dated 1738, another 1785), an early 20th century ornamental screen, behind the altar. There are several older gravestones inside the building set into the flagstone flooring. The churchyard and island have long been the burial place for the local community and there is a prominent war memorial of polished granite, set on the highest point of the island. The island also contains 8 Commonwealth war graves. Among the individual burials of local note is Sir Albert Evans-Jones (“Cynan”) (1895–1970) — the poet, dramatist, long-serving National Eisteddfod official. Tysilio was a 7th-century Welsh saint, traditionally said to have been the son of Brochwel Ysgithrog, prince of Powys, whose court was at Pengwern Like many noble-born Welsh saints, he renounced the worldly life in favour of a religious vocation. According to medieval hagiographies, he was educated at Meifod, which was one of the principal early Christian centres in Powys. His elder brother St Gwyddfarch had established a monastery there, and Tysilio succeeded him as abbot. Tradition holds that Tysilio settled on the small tidal island in the Menai Strait around c. 590–610 AD. There he is said to have founded a simple cell and a small wooden chapel. This early foundation gave its name to both the island and the later medieval parish of Llandysilio. His hermitage would have been part of the earliest wave of Celtic monasticism in North Wales — a life of prayer, manual labour, and isolation, rather than a community in the continental sense. After some years on Anglesey, Tysilio is said to have returned to Meifod, where he became abbot again and was later venerated as the second patron saint of the diocese of St Asaph (after St Asaph himself). One late medieval tradition (found in the Bonedd y Saint and Achau’r Saint) claims that after suffering further political pressure, he left Wales altogether and travelled to Brittany, where he may have been identified with Saint Suliac (the patron of Saint-Suliac, near St Malo). Breton tradition preserves this connection, though scholars debate whether Tysilio and Suliac were indeed the same person or merely became conflated. He is generally believed to have died around 640 AD. When you visit Church Island now, the peace and isolation of the site still reflect the kind of place that would have appealed to a hermit-saint like Tysilio. The stained-glass window in St Tysilio’s Church (1896) depicts the saint, recalling his founding of the site nearly 1,400 years earlier. Each November, on or near his feast day, small commemorations sometimes take place in his honour. References; Cadw Wikipedia Thank you to Google Earth for the zoom in map. 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - Map 01:14 - Main video