BANGOR (formerly BANGOR FAWR, as distinguished from several other towns of this name in

See also:

• WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales,

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• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland,

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• BRITTANY

Brittany, &c.)  , a city, municipal (1883) and contributory parliamentary borough (Carnarvon district), seaport and market-town of Carnarvonshire, N . Wales, 240 M . N.W. of London by the London & North Western railway . Pop . (1901) 11,269 . It consists of Upper and Lower, the Lower practically one street . Lying near the northern entrance of the Menai Straits, it attracts many visitors . Buildings include the small cathedral, disused bishop's palace, deanery,'smallRoman Catholic church and other churches, the University College of N . Wales (1883), with female students' hall, Independent, Baptist, Normal and N . Wales Training Colleges . The cruciform cathedral, with a low pinnacled tower, stands on the site of a church which the English destroyed in 1071 (dedicated to, and perhaps founded, about 525, by St Deiniol) . Sir G .

Scott restored the present cathedral, 1866–1875, after it had been burned in the time of Owen Glendower, destroyed in 1211, and, in 1102 and 1212, severely handled . Bishop Dean (temp . Henry VII.) rebuilt the choir, Bishop Skevyngton (1532) added tower and nave . Lord Penrhyn's slate-quarries, at Bethesda, 6 m. off, supply the staple export from Port Penrhyn, at the mouth of the stream Cegid . The Myvyrian Archaeology (408–484) gives the three principal bangor (college) institutions as follows:—the bangor of Illtud Farchawg at Caer Worgorn (Wroxeter); that of Emrys (Ambrosius) at Caer Caradawg; bangor wydrin (glass) in the glass isle, Afallach; bangor Illtud, or Llanilltud, or Llantwit major (by corruption), being a fourth . In each of the first three were 420 saints, succeeding each other (by hundreds), day and night, in their pious offices .