St Melangell's Church, Pennant Melangell

St Melangell’s Church has been a place of pilgrimage for over a thousand years.

According to legend, Melangell was given the Pennant valley as a place of sanctuary by Prince Brochwel Ysgithrog in the c7th after the hare he was hunting took refuge under her skirts.

The valley became a sacred site and a shrine was built to St Melangell.

The shrine dates from the c12th and is the only saint’s shrine of the Romanesque period to have survived in Britain.