Two Welsh Chapels

 

I've not shown any chapels for a while so I thought I would rectify this by showing two this week. A few weeks ago while on my way to revisit a church I had been to years ago I passed these chapels so on my way back I stopped off to get some photos.

This first chapel is Hermon Congregational Chapel Rhosgoch which was built back in 1849

Entered though this porch

 Originally like other long wall chapels it had two doors this one was blocked off long ago

The north side from the nearby road

The south side from the cemetery is covered in corrugated iron sheets

The cemetery is well kept with a lot of older headstones to see

Looking south from the path

On the south of the chapel the cemetery looks huge

Pillar monument in family plot with their names around it

Tomb chest are not something you see in many chapel cemetery's

As the windows were plain glass I got to see inside and took a couple of photos

It all looked well laid out with chairs that I dare say replaced the old pews

The next chapel a few miles down the road was Moriah Baptist Chapel Llaneilo Graban built in 1834 then rebuilt in 1884. When I first drove past it many years ago they were replacing the large central window

As you walk around the side you are faced with a small cemetery

The side of the chapel from over some of the headstones

Looking towards the chapel from the far end of the cemetery. The headstones down this end are more modern

View of the older headstones

The rear end of the chapel with what looks like a rest room that has been recently added by the rear entrance

The carving on the headstone in the photo above, was he a carpenter

This headstone had a scene on it which I though was reminiscent of the nearby countryside

 

Which is where I will leave you for this week.

Till next time may I wish you all a peaceful week

St Peter Broughton Poggs

  Last church of the day I had to visit and one I did wonder about where I could park, The church stands behind a converted farmhouse or manor In the end I drove along the drive and parked outside the main house, no one seemed to mind. This church completed the ones I wanted to visit in the far west of Oxfordshire south of the A40. There are still two nearer to me I will get around to going to sometime. All the churches listed in the Benefice of the Shill Valley I have now been to though two I have not been inside yet

Below is the church with the war memorial

"Parts of the Church of England parish church of Saint Peter are early Norman, including the 12th-century nave and font. There is a small Norman window in the north wall. The chancel arch is also 12th-century but the squints that flank it are later insertions. Early English and Decorated Gothic windows have been inserted in the south wall of the nave. The lower part of the bell tower was built around 1200 and the chancel is late 13th century. The north porch may be 13th or 14th century. The south door is set in a Caernarvon arch. St Peter's was restored and altered in 1874, and is a Grade II* listed building. St Peter's parish is now part of the Benefice of Shill Valley and Broadshire, which includes also the parishes of Alvescot, Black Bourton, Broadwell, Filkins, Holwell, Kelmscott, Kencot, Langford, Little Faringdon, Shilton and Westwell.^"

 

 Closer as you walk down the path 

South side showing the churchyard

South view of the church

The south doorways

The typanum has a mass dial on it as does one of the doorposts 

Graves at the west end of the church, for some reason I did not take one of the east end

North side towards the east end

Near the east boundary wall

Looking over the the south wall

Tombs and headstone on the south side

One of the tombs with Ivy climbing on it

Looking east

Two older headstones in the long grass

West view of the churchyard

The porch and way in on the north side

Along the nave

Altar in the chancel

I used my iphone for most of the photos this shows a wider view and the narrow chancel arch

The chancel arch with squints either side

The chancel

Back of the church

The pulpit and steps leading to it

View down from the pulpit

Looking through the chancel to the arch and the nave

Zooming in a bit to frame the font

 

The two east windows

 

Collage of the east window, not my best

This stained glass window is in the tower

One in the chancel

Rather nice memorial to Richard Burls

Lady Margaret's memorial

A memento Mori

This one is beneath the lat one

Rev John Avent

Goodenough memorials

Of which there are quite a few

Grave slab in the aisle

The Roll of Honor in the shape of a grave cross

I took this one with out the gold crown to show it better

Church Roof

Organ in the chancel

The rather nice 12 century Norman Font still in use

 

I will leave you with this view of the south side of the church

Till next time may I wish you all a peaceful week