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and the water from it was conducted by a channel under the 

 floor to the altar, beneath which it bubbled up, and then ran 

 away and fell over a sill at the S.E. end into a small (second) 

 Holy Well, to which access was obtained from without. 



The idea was certainly taken from the description of the 

 Living Waters in Ezekiel xlvii, 1,2. " He brought me again 

 unto the door of the house ; and behold waters issued out from 

 under the threshold of the house eastward ... and the waters 

 came down from under the right side of the house, at the south 

 side of the altar .... and behold there ran out waters on the 

 right side." 



The existing building is of the 15th century, but it is 

 probably a reconstruction out of the material of the original 

 chapel. No mortar seems to have been employed in the 

 masonry. 



It may be supposed that the saint, when settling there, lived 

 under a rock-shelter hard by, where the freestone beds lean 

 forward and are convenient as supplying a roof, and ret[uiring 

 only to have the face built up to the projecting rock. 



The feast at S. Clether is on October 23, the day of the 

 re-consecration of the church by Bishop Bronescombe in 1259 ; 

 but according to Chaloner's Supplement to his Martyrology, 

 November 3 ; which is also the day in the Calendar of the lolo 

 MSS., and also in the Welsh Calendar of the 12th century, in 

 the British Museum. 



Another day given to him is August 19 (Cressy), but this 

 may be the commemoration of the Saint of Clodock. 



S. CoAN, Martyr. 



Of this saint nothing is known, except that he was martyred 

 or murdered where is now his Martyrium, Merthyr Coan in 

 Powder. A holy well and a chapel are dedicated to him. 



S. CoLAN, Confessor. 



There were two saints known as CoUen in the Welsh lists. 

 One was the son of Owynog of the family of Caradoc Freichfras ; 

 the other was son of Petrwn, grandson of Ehydderch (Roderick) 



