Anglesey - The Collegiate Church of Holyhead. The New British Traveller was one of a number of publications by Alexander Hogg aiming to tap the bouyant market for works on British topography and antiquities. It included text on each couny, a set of county maps by T. Conder and others, and numerous copperplate prints by a variety of engravers. The work was initially issued in 60 parts from c 1783, and then as a complete work from 1784. Holyhead's Collegiate Church was built between the 13th and 16th centuries. It was originally a monastic foundation, constructed within the site of an old Roman fort. As a "collegiate" church its worship was administered by a body of "secular" canons, and it served as the parish church of the community. In 1547 an Act of Parliament abolished collegiate foundations, but the church survived and continued as the local parish church dedicated to St. Cybi. This print was engraved by Roberts.