Next to the church gate is the public house, The White Lion Inn, which displays on the swinging inn sign above the door the rampant white lion of the Holland’s of Teyrdan. Humphrey Holland, squire of the estate, was entombed in the church grounds according to the worn epitaph on the tomb that proclaims he departed this life in 1612.
Llanelian is well known for the cursing well of St. Elian. In years gone by, for a small fee, a curse could be registered with a person’s name etched on a stone, which was then dropped into the well. The activity of cursing seemed to have disappeared in 1829 when the vicar of St. Elian directed the well to be filled in.