This week we visit the first of two churches that I visited in Wales. I'm not sure even why I decided to go here other than I noticed it on my maps and it was only a little off the road I was on. Now there is very little history I can find on the place other that the village seems to have been around in 1304. The church looks to have been a chapel of ease for Old Radnor church before it was rebuilt in 1844-5 as to what was there before nothing remains.
You park up beside a farm and you get a good view of the church from over the wall.
The churchyard has a number of tombs and headstones in it
The east end as a couple more
Loft looking back to the porch
Going around to the north side
and the South with the porch
Inside it looks like a simple layout with a chancel at one end
Which is carpeted in Green like the altar
Looking back towards the nave
On either side by the chancel you find the Pulpit and organ
The view from the pulpit showing the pews and at the back a curtained off vestry
Above the font with decoration
There are a few memorials along the walls of the church and and some nice oil lamp holders
A couple of which can be seen in the chancel
Where you can also see the Roll of Honour for the village.
There is also a very nice stained glass window in the church
As I go back outside I look at the Font top and the rabbit between the two vases of yellow tulips
For the size of the village the churchyard is surprisingly large
Going around the north side a path leads through it
and you pass a large empty area where the more recent burials happen
The older headstones are near the church
along with these on the South side
On the gatepost is a memorial to Robert Thomson of the Coldstream Guards who was killed in Belgium in 1945
There are a couple more churches not far away so I will come back to the area to see them in the future. Next week we will be visiting another church in Wales that is on my list. I will leave you this week with a photo of a headstone near the church, The duck caught my eye.
Till next time have a wonderful weekend
9 comments:
I like the simplicity of the place. Very peaceful.
I'm loving the woodwork around the doorway entrance and I wonder how old those tiles are inside?
A beautiful rural church. I like the woodwork, floor tiles, green carpet and the flower arrangements. A cared for and peaceful place. Wishing you a peaceful week.
Very nice photos, interesting architecture.
It was and very rural
Not very, it's Victorian
I agree it was well looked after
Quite interesting considering it is Victorian
I am out of superlatives. Fine images. Love the rabbit!
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