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St Dona's Church, Llanddona is a small 19th-century parish church in the village of Llanddona, in Anglesey, north Wales. The first church on this site was built in 610. The present building on the site dates from 1873, and was designed by the rector at the time. It reuses earlier material including a decorated 15th-century doorway and a 17th-century bell. The church is still used for worship by the Church in Wales, and is one of seven churches in a combined parish. It is a Grade II listed building, a national designation given to "buildings of special interest, which warrant every effort being made to preserve them", in particular because it is regarded as "a simple late 19th-century essay in Gothic revival". ==History and location== St Dona's Church is on a steep hill near the coast on the eastern side of Anglesey, about from the village of Llanddona itself.〔 The village takes its name from its parish church: the Welsh word originally meant "enclosure" and then "church", and "–ddona" is a modified form of the saint's name.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Religion and creed in place names )〕 St Dona's is surrounded by a churchyard, entered through a lychgate dated 1906 which bears a memorial to Henry Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley, "Patron and Benefactor of this church". According to the 19th-century Anglesey historian Angharad Llwyd, a church was built here in 610, dedicated to St Dona, who lived on the sea shore nearby. The presence of a church here was recorded in the Norwich Taxation of 1254.〔 Repairs were carried out in the 1840s: one 19th-century writer, Samuel Lewis, recorded that the internal state of St Dona's was "wretched in the extreme" until the rural dean at the time put it "into a state of creditable repair". In 1873, the rector (Peter Jones) had the church entirely rebuilt to his own design.〔 St Dona's is still in use for worship and belongs to the Church in Wales. It is one of seven churches in the combined benefice of Beaumaris with Llanddona and Llaniestyn.〔 It is within the deanery of Tindaethwy and Menai, the archdeaconry of Bangor and the Diocese of Bangor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Deanery of Tindaethwy and Menai: St Mary, Pentraeth )〕 As of 2012, the rector is the Reverend Neil Fairlamb.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Church in Wales: Benefices )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Dona's Church, Llanddona」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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