The New International Encyclopædia/Saint Asaph

SAINT ASAPH, sānt ǎz′af. A city, standing on a small hill between the rivers Clwyd and Elwy, in the northwest of Flintshire, Wales (Map: Wales, C 3). Its trade is agricultural. The chief building is the cathedral, a cruciform structure, dating from 1284 on the site of a wooden structure founded before 596. Population, in 1901, 16,372. Consult Walcott, Memorials of Saint Asaph (London, 1865).