132 A TOUR ROUND NORjk WALES, 



At Llandygai (the church of Tegal) a vil- 

 lage beautifully fituated on the banks of the 

 turbulent little river Ogwen, is a neat 

 church, built in the form of a crofs, having 

 the tower in the centre. This is chiefly re- 

 markable for containing the remains of Dr. 

 Williams, Archbimop of York, who lived in 

 the reign of Charles I. His memory is 

 preferved by a mural monument, which re- 

 prefents him in his epifcopal drefs, kneeling 

 at an altar. 



On the right of the road, and not far from 

 Bangor, I paffed Penrhyn, the feat of the 

 Irifh Baron of that name. The prefent build- 

 ing, which is a good fpecimen of the mi- 

 litary Gothic, much in vogue in the reign of 

 Henry VI. is fuppofed to ftand on the iite 

 of a palace which belonged to Roderic 

 Moelwynog, Prince of Wales, who began 

 his reign about the year 720.* When I 



* Pennant's Tour, II. 284. 



was 



