St Eigon Llanigon

 

This week the Church Explorer  visits St Eigon Llanigon the last of the churches I managed to visit in one day. I found the church locked but was lucky in that I met a lady tending her sisters grave who knew where the key was left which allowed me inside.

"The church of St. Eigon predates the Norman Conquest, though the current building (parts of which are Norman) are somewhat later.

In the 1870s the diarist Rev. Francis Kilvert, curate of Clyro, was a regular visitor to the then vicar of Llanigon, the Rev. William Jones Thomas. Francis, fell in love with his daughter, Frances Eleanor Jane aka Daisy. Her father asked Kilvert not to pursue the matter, probably because as a mere curate he was not sufficiently well-placed. Kilvert noted "On this day when I proposed for the girl who will I trust one day be my wife I had only one sovereign in the world, and I owed that." Daisy never married and is buried in the Llanigon churchyard.^[14]

The successor to William Thomas as vicar of St. Eigon was the Rev. William Edward Thomas Morgan. He fell in love with Charlotte Alice, another of the Thomas daughters. Like Kilvert, he was refused permission to marry by William Thomas."

 Lychgate, I like how the Ivy is growing over it not that it can be doing it any good

 The church from across the churchyard, It looked odd with no bell tower or cote

The church from over the wall near the lychgate

Another view zoomed in, I kept wondering why the three openings in the porch, a room perhaps

South west view of the church

Around the north side 

Then round to the south east

I might add I cam back a week or so later which you will see the reason in a few more photos, it was a clearer sky on my second visit

The churchyard from the path

Over to the west side of the churchyard

Looking east south of the church

These are around the east end of the church

Looking up at the east end of the church over the headstones 

Looking south west across the churchyard, there is another entrance behind me I did not get a photo of

Couple of older headstones near the lychgate

William Howard Thomas Morgan BA was a vicar of the parish

Looking to the north side of the church from the east

Collage of the churchyard

I forgot to look for this grave on my first visit

This is the grave of Rev. William Jones Thomas and his daughters, I personally think he had airs above his station because he was a vicar in not letting two of his daughters marry vicars, Kilvert being one of them. Now adays things like that are less likely to happen

The porch or inside

and what looks like an old font very similar to the one in Bredwardine, my feeling is they came from the former Abbey Cwmhir

I found out what the  three openings were for, to let the sound of the bells out but the louvers on the side should have been a hint as well

Inside I found very light and minimilist

Towards the chancel arch

The altar and east window

Portrait shot of the altar and east window 

East window

View back though the chancel to the nave

The pulpit and lectern were similar in appearance

 

The view from the lectern

Not a great deal different from the pulpit

Pews doored and numbered

 

Organ and \\\\\\what looks like a piano 

The Roll of Honour looking a bit tarnished, brass ones I find hard to get a decent photo of

Another Roll of Honour Commemorating the Church which was damaged in WWII and those who died for their country

South wall of the chancel with commandments and Lords Prayer

The plaque commemorates who donated the tablets

The font 

South window looking on the churchyard

I will say goodby with another photo of the font with a brass pitcher for christenings.

Till next time may I wish you all a peaceful week