of cruciform structure with a central tower. It is a Grade II* listed building. The church has six bells. The bells naturally sound very loud inside the ringing chamber (from where the bells are rung); to combat this the bells are permanently fitted with leather muffles on both sides of the clapper. When ringing the bells they have a strange sound because of this; almost as if they are ringing inside a large tank of water. In the church is a marble monument to Archbishop John Williams, the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal during the reign of James I. There is also monument by Richard Westmacott to the first Lord Penrhyn, in which the sarcophagus is flanked by a quarryman and peasant woman, described by Eric Hobsbawm as "the earliest sculpted proletarians".Christopher Bethell, Bishop of Bangor, is buried in the churchyard. The ecclesiastical parish of Llandygái follows the Ogwen valley southwards, giving its name also to the village of Mynydd Llandygái. Education There are accounts of schooling for twelve children under the Welsh Trust in the late seventeenth century, and later a circulating school established in the area in 1750. Shortly after her husband's death, the first Lady Penrhyn set up a school for girls in the village in what is now Neuadd Talgai. A school for boys was built in 1843. The boys school, now with a twentieth century extension, forms the present-day primary school, Ysgol Llandygái. It is a Voluntary Controlled school with around 170 pupils. The village today The model village, within the loop of the former line of the A55 road, retains much of its original character, despite some more recent additions, having been declared a conservation area in 1974. The village is next to the Grand Lodge affording the principal entrance to Penrhyn Castle, the former seat of the Penrhyn family, now a National Trust property open to the public. Outside the model village are also to be found – Off the A5 towards Bangor: Llandygái Gypsy Site Llandygái Industrial Estate Ty Newydd probation hostel Bangor Cricket Club (Ty Newydd ground) Off the A5 towards Bethesda: Parc Cegin business park (in development) Off the former line of the A5, now a narrow lane: Bangor Rugby Football Club The Holyhead to Chester railway passes by the village through the Llandygái Tunnel, which is 442 yards in length, before emerging onto the Ogwen Viaduct to the