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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Hamlet in Powys, Wales}}<br />
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[[Image:Partrishow Church.jpg|thumb|Partrishow Church]]<br />
'''Partrishow''', also known as '''Patricio''', '''Patrishow''', or by its [[Welsh language|Welsh]] names '''Merthyr Isw''' and '''Llanisw''', is a small village and historic [[parish]] in the [[Administrative divisions of Wales|county]] of [[Powys]] (historically [[Brecknockshire]]), close to its border with [[Monmouthshire]]. It is in the valley of the [[Grwyne Fawr]], in the [[Black Mountains, Wales|Black Mountains]] of [[South Wales]], within the [[Brecon Beacons]] National Park.<br />
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==Name==<br />
The earliest recorded form of the name, as found in the [[Book of Llandaff|Book of Llandaf]] (''c.''1120s), is ''merthir issiu''. This is the Welsh word ''merthyr'' ('burial site, shrine, church') and what is probably a personal name which in modern Welsh would be ''Isiw'' or ''Isw''. [[Melville Richards]] gives ''Merthyr Isw'' as a modern form of the parish's name.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Richard |first=Melville |title=Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units |publisher=University of Wales Press |year=1969 |isbn=9780900768088 |publication-place=Cardiff |page=156 |language=en |oclc=35167}}</ref><br />
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In 1555 the name appears as ''Llanysho''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baring-Gould |first=S. |url=https://archive.org/details/livesofbritishsa03bariuoft/page/352/mode/2up |title=The lives of the British Saints: the Saints of Wales and Cornwall and such Irish Saints as have dedications in Britain |last2=Fisher |first2=John |publisher=The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion |year=1911 |volume=III |publication-place=London |pages=321}}</ref> In this case, the element ''llan'' ('enclosure, church') has replaced ''merthyr'', as has happened in a number of similar names.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Parsons |first=David N. |title=Martyrs and Memorials: ‘Merthyr’ Place-Names and the Church in Early Wales |publisher=Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru |year=2013 |isbn=9781907029158 |series= |publication-place=Aberystwyth |language=en |oclc=874931175}}</ref> The name appears as ''Pertrissw'' in the list of parishes in [[National Library of Wales]], [[Peniarth Manuscripts|Peniarth]] MS.147 (''c''.1566).<br />
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The modern English form is now ''Partrishow''. In Welsh, the form ''Llanisw'' and ''Merthyr Isw'' may be found.<br />
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==History and amenities==<br />
{{main|Church of St Issui, Partrishow}}<br />
The village is noted for its outstanding grade I listed 11th-century [[Church of St Issui, Partrishow|Church of St Issui]]<ref name=one>{{cite web |url=http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/brecon/16931.htm |publisher=Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust |title=Brecknockshire Churches Survey: Church of St Ishow, Partrishow |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190907204902/http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/brecon/16931.htm |archive-date=7 September 2019 |access-date=23 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/rb/par.php?dosommat=detail&which=923 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206211036/http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/rb/par.php?dosommat=detail&which=923 |archive-date=6 February 2012 | publisher=The Church in Wales |title=Parishes |access-date=23 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/BRE/Partrisio/Gaz1868.html |publisher=GENUKI |title=Partrisio / Partrishow |access-date=23 August 2021}}</ref> with an intricately carved 16th-century [[rood screen]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.ukonline.co.uk/blackmountains/partrishow_church.htm |title=Partrishow Church |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512181701/http://web.ukonline.co.uk/blackmountains/partrishow_church.htm |archive-date=12 May 2008 |access-date=23 August 2021}}</ref> [[mediaeval]] mural paintings,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/item1/22293 |title=Partrishow church interior, near Crickhowell |website=Gathering the Jewels |publisher= The National Library of Wales |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070227093628/http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/item1/22293 |archive-date=27 February 2007 |access-date=23 August 2021}}</ref> and one of the oldest [[baptismal font|font]]s in Wales. The churchyard also contains a grade II* listed cross. The church was originally called ''Methur Issui'' ("Saint Issui the Martyr"), a corruption of ''Merthyr Ishaw'' or ''Ishow''. It is now known as ''St Patrico''. It avoided [[Victorian restoration]], and its conservation was undertaken by [[W. D. Caröe]] in 1908–09, with further work on the churchyard in 1919.<ref name=one /><br />
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