

	Llanwnda OS ref. Church SM 933396

	Dedicated to the Breton, St Gwyndaf, the little church overlooks Strumble Head and Carreg Wastad. The irascible saint, had an altercation with St. Aidan and, after falling from his horse, who reared at a fish jumping, cursed the boundary stream. The subsequently fishless stream still springs from a holy well near the church. Lanwnda church was heavily restored in 1881 but its origins lie in the Celtic tradition. These are 5 inscribed stones set into the exterior walls including a cross in the South wall of the chancel and a head in the style of a pantocrator in the East wall of the South transept. Medieval wooden beams still span the nave, on one of which a carving is said to be the tonsured head of a 15th century monk. In the 12th century the living was held for a while by Gerald's Cambrensis and an ancient chalice was alleged to have been stolen by the French during the invasion of 1797.