Saint Tysul

Saint Tysul
Born	c.470 AD
Venerated in	Anglican Communion
Canonized	pre-canonical
Feast	31st January

Saint Tysul was a 5th-century pre-canonical Saint and Patron Saint of the churches of Llandysul in Cardiganshire and Llandyssil in Montgomeryshire. ^[1] His Feast Day is on Jan 31st.^[2]

Life

His full name was Tysul ap Corun ap Cunedda - or in English Tysul son of Corun, son of Cunedda and he was born c.462AD. He died in 554AD and today he is remembered in the church of Llandyssil, and the 13th century church of Llandysul in Ceredigion.

Tysul's Church

Old St Tysul's Church, Llandyssil c1855. Engraving from a drawing by Harry Longueville Jones. Arch Camb, 1884, pg 91

Saint Tysul built a church in Llandyssil, Powys.^[3] It was located on a hillside to the South east of the village.^[4] and today its remains are still within a roughly circular graveyard, which is still in use. The South porch is the only surviving part of St. Tysul'ss church, which was replaced in 1866AD by a new church on the North West side of the village. His church was renowned for its timber belfry,^[5] and there was strong contemporary feeling against its demolition and replacement.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

Gallery

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  View over Llandyssil in Montgomeryshire from the old churchyard
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  Lych Gate, St Tysul's Old churchyard, Llandyssil
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  The re-built porch of the Old Church, Llandyssil
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  13th century St Tysul Church, Llandysul, Ceredigion
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  New Church of St Tysul, Llndyssil

References

1. Bartrum P C “A Welsh Classical Dictionary: People in History and Legend up to about A.D. 1000”, National Library of Wales, 1993, 630. Tysul’s full name was Tysul ap Corun ap Cunedda - or son of Corun, son of Cunedda
2. Thomas D R, The History of the Diocese of St Asaph, Vol I, (Caxton Press, Oswestry 1908) 2 ed. page 524.
3. Llandyssil.com
4. Old Church Of Saint Tyssil.
5. Pickering, W., Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1904 pages125-132 and 269-272.
6. Haslam R, (Powys), Buildings of Wales series, 1979,p 126;
7. H.L.J, 'Llandyssul Church, Montgomeryshire' Archaeologia Cambrensis, Series iii, Vol. X, 1864, pp 125-8
8. Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, Parish of Llandyssil, Parish Church of St Tyssil, Bethesda Presbyterian Chapel, Moriah Presbyterian Chapel: Memorial Inscriptions (Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, 1996).
9. PowysRichard Haslam Yale University Press, 1 Jan 1979 page 126.
10. Bartrum P C “A Welsh Classical Dictionary: People in History and Legend up to about A.D. 1000”, National Library of Wales, 1993, 630.