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at the present location on St Mary's Street. This was in turn transferred to the function of church hall after the, present St
Margaret's was completed beside it and consecrated on 29 November 1933. The wooden church was later moved to the location also, though both it and the tin tabernacle have
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Gelligaer until the early 17th century. Several parishioners were summonsed in 1622 for refusing to attend Reformed services. The church's rector during the Commonwealth was ejected for refusing to accept a doctrinal change, and the church had no settled officiant for a decade after
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St Catwg's was historically part of a very large parish which spread over much of North
Eastern Glamorgan. Increasing industrialisation in the 19th century and the corresponding rise in population led the parish to be segmented into smaller ones. St Catwg's later acquired two daughter churches
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The site of a Roman fort, Gelligaer is believed to have been the site of St Catwg (or Cadoc)'s birth c. 500 AD. Cadoc's mother (according to most traditional accounts) was
Gwladys, and Cadoc himself is recorded to have occupied a 'Capel Gwladys' in
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from 1488, donated a peel of bells and an organ to the church in recognition of the loyalty of
Glamorgan to the Tudor cause. St Catwg's was one of eight churches in the area which received such gifts, together with
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this. A parishioner named David Jones, who died in 1786, aged 92, was described as a 'professional papist'. Gelligaer was the richest living in the
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