Editing Llansantffraed

{{Other places|Llansanffraid (disambiguation){{!}}Llansanffraid}}
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{{Infobox UK place
| country                     = Wales
| official_name               = Llansantffraed, Talybont-on-Usk
| welsh_name                  =
| constituency_welsh_assembly = [[Brecon and Radnorshire (Senedd constituency)|Brecon and Radnorshire]]
| coordinates                 = {{coord|51.902|-3.277|display=inline,title}}
| community_wales             = [[Talybont-on-Usk]]
| unitary_wales               = [[Powys]]
| lieutenancy_wales           = [[Powys]]
| constituency_westminster    = [[Brecon and Radnorshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Brecon and Radnorshire]]
| post_town                   = BRECON
| postcode_district           = LD3
| postcode_area               = LD
| dial_code                   = 01874
| os_grid_reference           = SO123235
| population                  = 1,422
| population_ref              = (2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125975&c=SY22+6AZ&d=16&e=62&g=6491138&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1447426683698&enc=1|title=Community population 2015|access-date=13 November 2015}}</ref> 
}}
'''Llansantffraed''' (Llansantffraed-juxta-Usk)<ref>{{cite book|title=Breconshire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lPM8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA163|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=163–|id=GGKEY:QG71J8NPWLF}}</ref> is a parish in the community of [[Talybont-on-Usk]] in [[Powys]], Wales, near [[Brecon]]. The benefice of Llansantffraed with [[Llanrhystud]] and [[Llanddeiniol]] falls within the [[Diocese of St Davids]] in the [[Church in Wales]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/d849/|title=Benefice of Llansantffraed with Llanrhystud and Llanddeiniol|publisher= Church in Wales|access-date = 28 April 2016}}</ref>

[[File:Grade II listed Llansantffraed Church (geograph 2590550).jpg|left|thumb|St Fraed's Church]]

==Church and churchyard==
The church of [[Brigid of Kildare|St Ffraed]] is a [[Grade II]] [[listed building]].<ref>{{NHAW|num=21144|desc= Church of St Ffraed| grade=II|access-date=7 June 2022}}</ref> It was largely restored in 1690 and was completely rebuilt in 1885 by the architect [[Stephen W. Williams]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://powysenc.weebly.com/llanigon---llansantffraed.html|title=Llanigon – Llansantffraed|website=Powys Local History Encyclopedia|access-date = 28 April 2016}}</ref>

The parish is the burial place of the poet [[Henry Vaughan]] (1621–1695), who was born in the hamlet of [[Scethrog]] within the parish. Vaughan's grave in the churchyard, on the slopes of a hill known as [[Allt yr Esgair]] or simply The Allt,<ref name="Williamson1953">{{cite book|author=Edward W. Williamson|title=Henry Vaughan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7GhKAAAAMAAJ|year=1953}}</ref> overlooks the [[River Usk]]. The poets [[Siegfried Sassoon]], [[Roland Mathias]], [[Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris|Brian Morris]] and [[Anne Cluysenaar]] were all inspired to write poems by their visits to the grave. Sassoon's "At the Grave of Henry Vaughan" is the best-known of these and is read every year at the graveside following the Vaughan memorial service.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.brecknocksociety.co.uk/henry-vaughan.html|title= Henry Vaughan, Poet and Physician: Grave and heritage at Llansantffraed, Brecknockshire|publisher= Brecknock Society and Museum Friends|access-date = 28 April 2016}}</ref>

Another grave of note in the churchyard is a Grade II listed tomb erected for the Gwynne-Holford family, residents of nearby [[Buckland Hall]] (see below).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/brecon/16886.htm|title=Brecknockshire Churches Survey|website=Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust|access-date=2 October 2016}}</ref> The family included [[James Gwynne-Holford]], Conservative [[member of parliament]] for [[Brecon (UK Parliament constituency)|Brecon]] (died 1886).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-21143-gwynne-holford-monument-in-the-churchyard#.V_EpbPArKM8|title=Gwynne Holford Monument in the churchyard to SW of Church of St Ffraed, Talybont-on-Usk|website=British Listed Buildings|access-date=2 October 2016}}</ref>

Vaughan's twin brother, [[Thomas Vaughan (philosopher)|Thomas Vaughan]], became [[rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] of Llansantffraed in about 1644.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.davidgill.co.uk/cg/landlit/llansantffraed.html|title= Landscape and Literature|publisher= David Gill|access-date = 28 April 2016}}</ref>  He was forced to vacate the position in 1650, on grounds that included his having been on the [[Cavalier|Royalist]] side during the [[English Civil War]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Siberry|first1=Elizabeth|last2=Wilcher|first2=Robert|title=Henry Vaughan and the Usk Valley|publisher=Logaston Press|date=2016|ISBN=9781910839027|page=30}}</ref>

==Other buildings==
The Old Rectory, which stands close by the church to the northwest, is a Grade II listed building, with an estimated date of late 18th century. It is thought to have been built as a [[Hunting and shooting in the United Kingdom#Hunting_lodge|hunting lodge]] for the Buckland estate and converted into a rectory in the 19th century, but was released by the church during the 1950s.  It later became a guest house.<ref>{{NHAW|num=21162|desc=The Old Rectory, Talybont-on-Usk|grade=II|access-date = 28 April 2016}}</ref>

===Buckland Hall===
Buckland Hall, home of the Gwynne-Holfords, stands in a large park a small distance from the village. It is a  [[Listed building|Grade II listed building]].<ref>{{NHAW|num=21186|desc=Buckland Hall|grade=II|access-date=15 February 2023}}</ref> Its [[Edwardian era|Edwardian]] garden is listed, also at Grade II, on the [[Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales]].<ref>{{NHAW|uid=322|num=PGW(Po)6(POW)|desc=Buckland House|class=HPG|access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref> The park contains a tennis [[pavilion]], graded at II*, by [[Henry Avray Tipping]].<ref>{{NHAW|num=21158|desc=The Tennis Pavilion, Buckland Hall|grade=II*|access-date=15 February 2023}}</ref>

==Governance==
An [[Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom|electoral ward]] with the same name exists. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 1,880.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/llansantffraid-w05000327#sthash.vvPPHEDl.dpbs|title=Ward population 2011|access-date=13 November 2015}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
*[https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=5975637 Photos of Llansantffraed and surrounding area] at geograph.org.uk

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