St Cadoc Raglan

 

The second church I visited on my way back home from Wales, I had been interested in looking around the church for a while ever since I visited Raglan Castle and read the knights were buried in the church. The photos were taken with my compact zoom and iphone and while the ones outside are OK I had trouble with the light inside due to it being dark so they were not as good as I would like them to have been. As luck would have it I managed to return and get some more photos of the inside

St Cadoc's is a substantial mediaeval church, extensively restored in the 19th century by Thomas Henry Wyatt. It houses some much-defaced tombs of the Lords of Raglan. The base of a fine pilgrim's cross can be seen in the churchyard. The first part of the church was built during the 14th century. The church is a Grade II* listed building. For a more in depth history read this St Cadoc Raglan

 

From the roadside St Cadoc's church

Road side view

 

There is not much of  north side churchyard to get a view of the church from

South east view

 

 

 Going around more to the south

The porch

Geeing ahead here with the entrance door

Looking north on the west end

The churchyard north of the church

 Which were taken over the wall

Looking east form south of the church

 

The pilgrim cross base which has been put on a lager base and had a shaft added

Wider view of the base

Further east  the churchyard

Looking over to the south more to the carpark

Back in the porch and the entrance doorway

I took this shot before I went showing the church looking from the back

Cropping it gives a different view

Managed to return for some more view of the inside

 Chancel arch

 Chancel with choir stalls

 Altar and east window

 

 

Back lit cross and east window

 

East window

 Chance ceiling

 

Looking back though the church from the choir stalls

This is the north aisle which has a couple of altars in it

The Mothers Union banner of St Cadoc

One of the altars in the north aisle, there is another on the other side of the partition

The knights tomb or what is left of it, truth is I did see a photo so know what it might look like. During the siege of Ragnor castle Cromwells men  really desiccated the tomb and vault underneath. All that is left of the canopy is on the wall and the effigies are what you see

I think Cromwells me really did a number on them, the lady on the other side has no hear or feet

The lower half of this one gone as well it could be a young man. If you read the link at the beginning on St Cadoc's it tell you more

The plaque attached to the wall tells the story but is hard to read

 Looking west in the north aisle

Some of the memorial plaques in the church

Couple in the south east corner of the chancel

 On the north wall of the nave

The east window in  the north aisle near the knights tomb behind the organ

Another of the north aisle windows

Lectern view down the church

The pulpit is quite large

 And you get to it through here

 The view from the pulpit

Partitioned off bell are in the tower

With quiet a nice stained glass window inside

 

Font is in the corner of the nave

 

The font no doubt Victorian

 

 As the partition was glass I did get a view of the west end stained glass window

 

 

another look in the nave

 

I will leave you with this shot of a cross with the east window in the background.

Till next time may I wish you all a peaceful week