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2017 EVERGREEN 123<br />
Viewed from Penmon Point, Puffin Island lies beyond the lighthouse.<br />
The two crosses that flanked<br />
the entrance to the early medieval<br />
monastery are now housed in the<br />
church, the larger one located in the<br />
nave and the smaller one in the south<br />
transept. The smaller of the two was<br />
also once used as a lintel for one of<br />
the refectory windows, when one of<br />
the arms was cut off for the purpose.<br />
St. Seiriol’s Well is a spring<br />
which emerges from a cliff behind<br />
the church, reached by a path on<br />
which one passes the monastic fish<br />
pond. The roofed brick-built inner<br />
chamber dates from 1710, although<br />
the lower courses and ante-chamber<br />
are thought to date from an earlier<br />
period.<br />
St. Seiriol was a great friend of<br />
St. Cybi who founded a monastery<br />
at the other end of the island near<br />
Holyhead — Caergybi in Welsh.<br />
According to legend the two saints<br />
used to meet each other in the centre<br />
of the island at Llanerchymedd.<br />
Because St. Cybi walked from<br />
Holyhead facing the rising sun in the<br />
morning and the setting sun in the<br />
One of a number of stained-glass windows<br />
in the 12th-century church at Penmon.
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