 The earliest Welsh translation of Rhygyfarch's "Life of St, David", "Llyf Ancr Llanddewi Brefi", was written here in 1346 by an Anchorite, and is now kept in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.The central tower dates from the 12th century, which, in medieval times, had five bells in its belfry.Today there is only one bell, which was given to the church by John Inglis Jones of Derry Ormond in 1874.