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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 317 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BANGOR (formerly BANGOR FAWR, as distinguished from several other towns of this name in Wales, Ireland,
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Brittany, &c.)
  , a city, municipal (1883) and contributory
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parliamentary borough (Carnarvon
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district), seaport and market-
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town of Carnarvonshire, N . Wales, 240 M . N.W. of
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London by the London & North Western railway . Pop . (1901) 11,269 . It consists of Upper and
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Lower, the Lower practically one street . Lying near the
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northern entrance of the Menai Straits, it attracts many visitors . Buildings include the small
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cathedral, disused bishop's palace, deanery,'smallRoman Catholic church and other churches, the University College of N . Wales (1883), with
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female students' hall,
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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
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English destroyed in 1071 (dedicated to, and perhaps founded, about 525, by St Deiniol) .
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Sir G .

Scott restored the
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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
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nave . Lord Penrhyn's slate-quarries, at Bethesda, 6 m. off, supply the
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staple export from
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Port Penrhyn, at the mouth of the stream Cegid . The Myvyrian Archaeology (408–484) gives the three
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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
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fourth . In each of the first three were 420 saints, succeeding each other (by hundreds), day and
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night, in their pious offices .

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