St. Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire - St. Thomas' Church, Our Lady of Cemais - postcard

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• Picture / Image:  St. Thomas' Church, St. Dogmaels, [Pembrokeshire] - Statue of Our Lady of Cemais
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St Dogmaels (Welsh: Llandudoch) is a village, parish[2] and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the estuary of the River Teifi, a mile downstream from the town of Cardigan in neighbouring Ceredigion. A little to the north of the village, further along the estuary, lies Poppit Sands beach. The parish includes the small settlement of Cippyn, south of Cemaes Head.[3]

Name

The English and Welsh names seem to bear no similarity, but it has been suggested that possibly both names refer to the same saint or founder Dogfael (Dogmael), with ‘mael’ (prince) and ‘tud’ (land or people of) being added to Dog/doch as in Dog mael and Tud doch.[4]

History

St Dogmaels Abbey is 12th-century Tironesian and was one of the richer monastic institutions in Wales. Adjacent to the abbey ruins is the parish church (Church in Wales) of St Thomas, which appears successively to have occupied at least three sites close to or within the abbey buildings. The present building is a respectable minor Victorian edifice and contains the Ogam Sagranus stone.

St Dogmaels was once a marcher borough. George Owen of Henllys, in 1603, described it as one of five Pembrokeshire boroughs overseen by a portreeve.[5] The parish appeared (as Sct. Dogmels) on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire.[6]

In the 1830s, the parish's population was 2,109,[7] and fell into four areas: Cippyn, Abbey, Pant-y-groes and Bridgend.[8] In 1832, boundary changes meant that a part of Pembrokeshire, including a part of St Dogmaels, was included in Cardiganshire. This was reversed by the Welsh Assembly in 2002.[2]

There are more than 30 listed buildings[9] in the parish, including the parish church,[10] the abbey[11] and the mediaeval flour mill, Y Felin.[12]

In 2006, the village won the Wales Calor Village of the Year competition after beating Trefriw in the final.[13]