Name: Christmas Day Eucharist, St Ellteyrn’s Church
Start: 2025-12-25T09:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-25T10:30:00+00:00
Location: St Ellteyrn’s Church, Capel Llanilltern

Christmas at St Ellteyrn’s Church, Capel Llanilltern

Carol Service: 21 December at 3pm
Christmas Day Eucharist: 25 December at 9.30am

Quiet Christmas Service

A gentle and reflective time with music and readings. 7pm on 15 December at Christ Church, Radyr.

First Sunday of Christmas: Ministry Area Eucharist

There will be a Ministry Area Eucharist to celebrate the First Sunday of Christmas at 11am on Sunday 28 December at Christ Church, Radyr. This will be the only service in the MA on this day.

About

Just to the north-west of Cardiff stands the rural village of Llanilltern. On the side of the A4119 stands the tiny church of St. Ellteyrn’s. There was a church on the site prior to 1862 but apart from the statement in Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary that it was “small”, we have no knowledge of its structure or design.

The existing Church was built in 1862 and was originally a Chapel of Ease for St. Fagans, and hence the Earl of Plymouth, Robert Clive-Windsor who owned St. Fagans Castle at the time. It was an Anglican chapel situated for the convenience of parishioners living a long way from the Parish church. It is one of the smallest places of worship within the Diocese of Llandaff.

In the late 1990s, the church at Capel Llanilltern became the responsibility of the Vicar of Pentyrch.