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Llanishen (Llan-Isan)

LLANISHEN (LLAN-ISAN), a parish, in the union of Cardiff, hundred of Kibbor, county of Glamorgan, South Wales, on the road from Cardiff to Caerphilly, 3½ miles (N.) from Cardiff; containing 418 inhabitants. Llanishen House, now fallen to decay, was, for more than two centuries, the seat of the family of Lewis; it previously belonged to the Vaughans, the heiress of which family was married to a younger son of the Lewises of the Vann. New House is a handsome modern seat, pleasantly situated at the southern foot of a lofty ridge of hills running in a direction from east to west in this part of the county. The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty; net income, £46; patrons, alternately, C. K. Kemeys Tynte, Esq., and the representative of the last Earl of Plymouth, the impropriators. The church, dedicated to St. Isan, is a neat structure, in the pointed style of architecture. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Two day schools in connexion with the Church are held, as also is a Church Sunday school. In 1728, Mary Lewis conveyed by deed a moiety of the great tithes of the parish of Lisvane, in trust to certain parties, to the intent that they should out of the rents and profits employ masters here and at Lisvane, at a salary of £5 each, to teach the poor children in both places, and that the remainder should be employed in apprenticing them. These tithes, at present let for £70 per annum, are also subject to a payment of £10 to the perpetual curate. Edward Morgan, by will in 1669, assigned a rent-charge of £2. 12., to be distributed in bread among the poor; and Thomas Lewis, Esq., in 1775, gave one of £4 to the paupers in four almshouses, let by him to the parish; but this endowment has not been paid of late years; and a rent-charge of 13s. 4d., bequeathed by Matthew Pritchard, in 1623, for the benefit of the poor, is said to have been lost by the river Tâf encroaching on the property. According to Leland, Richard William, otherwise Cromwell, afterwards Earl of Essex, who was beheaded by order of Henry VIII., was born at the mansion of New House; but the circumstance is doubtful. The water of a spring called St. Dene’s Well is considered efficacious in the cure of scorbutic complaints.

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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales

Samuel Lewis

1849