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Vale of Glamorgan (UK Parliament constituency)

Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1983EngvarB from March 2022Parliamentary constituencies in South WalesPolitics of the Vale of Glamorgan
ValeOfGlamorgan2007Constituency
ValeOfGlamorgan2007Constituency

Vale of Glamorgan (Welsh: Bro Morgannwg) is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Alun Cairns, a Conservative.It is a bellwether constituency, having been won by the party with a plurality of seats in every general election since the seat was created in 1983. The constituency is to retain its name but its boundaries altered, as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and under the June 2023 final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for Wales for the next United Kingdom general election.

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Vale of Glamorgan (UK Parliament constituency)

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N 51.429 ° E -3.351 °
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CF62 3AS , Llancarfan
Wales, United Kingdom
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St Cadoc's Church, Llancarfan
St Cadoc's Church, Llancarfan

St Cadoc's Church, Llancarfan is a church in Llancarfan, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It dates from the 13th century and has been a Grade I listed building since 28 January 1963.The church is one of several churches in Wales dedicated to St Cadoc, but it was at Llancarfan that the saint is believed to have served as abbot of, or possibly founded, a monastery of some importance. It is claimed that the name "Llancarfan" means "church of the stags" though this explanation is disputed. Other explanations are that the Welsh word 'carfan' meaning a row or a ridge may refer to a boundary or that it is named after a person called Carfan. The church once had a chancel window said to be a masterpiece of stained glass. During the reign of Oliver Cromwell a local man named Whitton Bush destroyed the window by repeatedly beating it while shouting "Down with the Whore of Babylon!"In 2013 restoration work was carried out on medieval wall paintings discovered at the church in 2008. When layers of limewash were removed, it was found that the topics depicted include the Seven Deadly Sins and Saint George and the Dragon. Further investigations suggested that the paintings are among the best surviving examples in the whole of the UK, and that the depiction of Saint George and the Dragon is the largest on the subject from that period, as well as the most complete. Another painting deals with the unusual topic of "Death and the Gallant". Their date has been estimated at the second half of the 15th century.