St Illtyd Llanhilleth,Western Valley, Gwent
The coming of Christianity to Gwent, around the Third Century CE, its noted that British-Celtic-churches were present at the Councils of Arles and Rimini in 314 & 359 .It's said that the first preacher to have spoke in Llanhilleth to have been no other then St Paul, in the absence of any credible source, be relegated to myth status.For it was in 860-893 that a cell of sorts was established on or near the site of St Illtyd.This falls behind the first mound of the Castell Taliorum Siluriam hill fort complex; and the circular churchyard tells of earlier pagan worship. I put more on my Gwent Page. For you that travel here a inn is right be-side this church.
