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History around the area - KenfigSt James Church Kenfig
Built c.1147 - 1154History of the ChurchDuring the 12th century the Normans progressed along the South Wales coast led by Robert Fitzhamon
who split the conquest into knights fees keeping Cardiff and parts of Margam and Kenfig for himself,
suggesting that they were of some significance.
Kenfig became a Norman trading town attacked frequently by the Welsh.
The Normans had adopted the Roman form of Christianity and an organised church was becoming centred
on Canterbury with the abbeys at other sides in England.
As the Normans moved west they endowed abbeys at Tewkesbury and Gloucester with lands and authority
in South Wales. Kenfig was endowed to Tewkesbury Abbey.
Medieval KenfigThe church in the medieval town of Kenfig was initiated between 1147 and 1154. William,
the Earl of Gloucester, petitioned the Abbot of Tewkesbury to permit Henry Thusard, clerk,
to build a church in the town of Kenfig.
Thusard paid an annual pension of 2 shillings to the Abbot so that the rights of
Tewkesbury to the tithes were not prejudiced. Thus the church of St. James in Kenfig was a Tewkesbury church.
As time went on, the sand encroached on the town. A number of events indicate that this gradual process,
accelerated by occasional storms, occurred largely during the second half of the 13th, the 14th and into the 15th centuries.
What happened to the St James Church?The church of St.James in Kenfig was eventually overwhelmed and a new church was built in Pyle,
again dedicated to St.James. Some of the costs of the replacement of the church in Pyle would have
been borne by the burgesses of Kenfig who were given to understand that the church in Pyle was now their parish church.
Consistory Court Case - 1485Details of this court case are located on the histroy of St.James Church Pyle [ Learn more ]
Bibliography
Source:
(1)Kenfig.org
(2)The Kenfig Society
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