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23-580: Magor may refer to the following: Places Magor, Monmouthshire , a village in Wales, United Kingdom Magor with Undy , a community in Wales, United Kingdom Magor Farm, a Romano-British villa near Illogan in Cornwall Breton name for Magoar Cornish name for Maker, Cornwall People Liz Magor , a Canadian visual artist Ivan Martin Jirous ,

46-478: A baptismal font . Some larger parishes or parishes that have been combined under one parish priest, may have two or more such churches, or the parish may be responsible for chapels (or chapels of ease) located at some distance from the mother church for the convenience of distant parishioners. In England and many British Overseas Territories as well as former British territories, the Church of England parish church

69-631: A 13th-century boat, used for trading along and across the Severn Estuary, and perhaps with Ireland , were found buried in the mud of the estuary close to Magor Pill . The boat was found to have been carrying iron ore from Glamorgan . Magor, as "Magur", is one of the few villages to appear on the Cambriae Typus map of 1573. St Marys is a Grade I listed building and is part of the Netherwent Ministry Area. According to tradition,

92-601: A Czech underground poet, known as Magor Magor, a legendary ancestor of the Hungarian people, see Hunor and Magor Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Magor . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magor&oldid=938697124 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

115-459: A geographically extensive rural parish) or mission church . Often the parish church will be the only one to have a full-time minister , who will also serve any smaller churches within the parish. (For example, St. Peter's Church in St. George's Parish, Bermuda, is located on St. George's Island ; hence, a chapel-of-ease, named simply Chapel-of-Ease , was erected on neighbouring St. David's Island so that

138-445: A large pond and numerous reens. It includes breeding grounds for common snipe , common redshank , reed warbler , grasshopper warbler and Cetti's warbler . It is the richest site in Wales for wetland beetles and soldier-flies , and its pattern of drainage ditches and other features have remained unchanged since the 14th century. Nearby the village, at Junction 23A of the M4 motorway

161-419: Is Magor services motorway service area, which opened in 1996. In 2007 a M4 relief road was proposed for Newport which was to be built to the west of the village utilising the existing motorway junction. These plans were dropped in 2009. As of October 2013, a revised draft plan is under consultation. Monmouthshire County Council relocated many of its office-based staff to Innovation House at Magor, on

184-588: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Magor, Monmouthshire Magor ( English: / ˈ m eɪ ɡ ər / ; Welsh : Magwyr ) is a large village in Monmouthshire , south east Wales , about 9 miles (14 km) west of Chepstow and about 9 miles (14 km) east of Newport . It lies on the Caldicot Levels beside the Severn Estuary , and

207-549: Is in the community of Magor with Undy . Magor lies close to the M4 motorway . The original Welsh language name Magwyr , from which the English name is derived, is thought to originate from the Latin maceria , meaning masonry walls or ruins. It may relate either to a now-lost Roman villa in the area, or alternatively to sea defences or a causeway built by the Romans. Magor and

230-537: Is the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches. Parishes cover almost the whole area of England. In addition to ecclesiastic parishes , with which this article is concerned, there is also a system of civil parishes , which represent the smallest tier of administrative units. However since the 19th century these have not shared the same boundaries, or often the same names. (In other territories arrangements may differ, e.g. in Bermuda civil and church parishes still share

253-451: Is the burial place of Welsh composer Mansel Thomas (1909–1986). Magor has a thriving village centre containing shops, pubs , restaurants and a Post Office . As well as the large parish church, the village also has a historic Baptist church. Magor and the neighbouring village of Undy support a thriving athletic club whose clubhouse and pitches are found at the eastern end of the villages. Undy actually consists of all land lying to

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276-589: The parish church was founded in the 7th century, and was originally dedicated to St. Leonard . The existing building has been described as "one of the most ambitious churches in Monmouthshire" . The earliest parts of the building date from the 13th century, at about the same time as it was handed by Gilbert Marshal, Earl of Pembroke to the Abbey of Anagni in Italy . It was later administered by Tintern Abbey . The church

299-501: The 1920s, traffic on the line was so heavy that refuge sidings were provided on both lines. In 1941 the main line was doubled to four running lines, with the outer two lines as slow goods-only lines to serve the increasing wartime coal traffic, without delaying fast trains on the central main lines. The station closed, along with Undy Halt , in November 1964; although the goods yard remained open until 1965 for cement trains connected with

322-449: The Wales 1 Business Park beside the motorway, in 2011. This followed the need to vacate its offices at the former Gwent County Hall at Croesyceiliog , Cwmbran , due to " concrete cancer " in the building. The South Wales Railway between Swansea and Chepstow (later Gloucester) passed through Magor and a station was opened here in the 1850s, shortly after the line opened. The station provided three sidings serving local farmers. By

345-423: The building of the M4 motorway . Parish church Each diocese (administrative unit, headed by a bishop) is divided into parishes. Normally, a parish consists of all Catholics living within its geographically defined area. Within a diocese, there can also be overlapping parishes for Catholics belonging to a particular rite, language, nationality, or community. Each parish has its own central church called

368-463: The church may use community centres or the facilities of a local church of another denomination. While villages and small towns may have a single parish church, larger towns may have a parish church and other smaller churches in various districts. These other churches do not have the legal or religious status of a parish church, and may be described by a variety of terms, such as chapel of ease (this term more often refers to an additional church in

391-481: The island's residents need not cross St. George's Harbour .) In cities without an Anglican cathedral , the parish church may have administrative functions similar to that of a cathedral. However, the diocese will still have a cathedral. The Church of Scotland , the established Presbyterian church also uses a system of parish churches, covering the whole of Scotland . In Massachusetts , towns elected publicly funded parish churches from 1780 until 1834, under

414-632: The north of Magor reen , taking in Dancing Hill where the reen intersects Cowleaze (Magor) to the south and Millfield Park and Mill Reen (Undy) to the north. Vinegar Hill, often regarded as a boundary point between Magor and Undy, actually lies wholly within Undy. Magor Marsh is a 90 acres (36 ha) wetland reserve managed by the Gwent Wildlife Trust . It has a rich variety of habitats, including damp hay meadows, sedge fen, reedbed, scrub, wet woodland,

437-411: The parish church to which they belong, but they may for convenience or taste, attend services at any Roman Catholic church. However, their parish church is the one, where members of the parish must go to, for baptisms and weddings , unless they are permitted by the parish priest (US ' pastor ') for celebrating those sacraments elsewhere. One sign of that is the parish church being the only one to have

460-523: The parish church, where religious services take place. The parish church is the center of most Catholics' spiritual life since it is there that they receive the sacraments . On Sundays and perhaps also daily, Mass is celebrated by a priest resident in the parish. Confession is made available and perhaps Vespers in the larger or more progressive parishes. There are also laity-led activities and social events in accordance with local culture and circumstances. Roman Catholics are not obliged to worship only at

483-585: The same boundaries, see Anglican Church of Bermuda ). Most ecclesiastical parishes have an Anglican parish church , which is consecrated . If there is no parish church, the bishop licenses another building for worship, and may designate it as a parish centre of worship . This building is not consecrated, but is dedicated, and for most legal purposes it is deemed to be a parish church. In areas of increasing secularisation or shifts in religious belief, centres of worship are becoming more common, and many larger churches have been sold due to their upkeep costs. Instead

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506-406: The surrounding area contain many Roman ruins and artefacts, and the village centre was originally located at the inner edge of salt marshes which the Romans began to reclaim as farmland. The local name "Whitewall" may relate to the same causeway, which would have connected the village to a small now-vanished harbour on the Severn Estuary known as Abergwaitha or Aberweytha. In 1994 the remains of

529-401: Was greatly extended in the 15th century, and was restored and re-dedicated to St. Mary in the mid-19th century. Remains of The Procurator's House , some parts of which may date from the 14th century and others from the 16th century, are still standing just off the village square. The procurator was responsible for collecting the tithes of the village on behalf of the abbey. The church

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