Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Monastery Church, Capel-y-Ffin
Llanigon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 20 June 1995
- Community
- Llanigon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.97606, -3.09037
- Cadw reference
- 16103
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Exterior
16103
The Monastic Church stands on a hillside to the west of Capel-y-ffin, NE of the Monastery and detached from it.
History: The Monastery was started in 1869 by Father Ignatius (the Rev J L Lyne 1837-1908), as an Anglican Benedictine foundation in succession to Llanthony. The cloister was begun in 1870, the detached church in 1872; Charles Buckeridge was succeeded in 1873 as architect by J L Pearson. Building stopped in 1882 and the church collapsed c.1920. Acquired by Eric Gill 1924, as a Catholic self-supporting community of the Ditchling Guild.
Exterior: Only the chancel exists, in ruins. Stone, buttressed, bulging outwards at E end.
Interior: 3 bays, severe Transitional Early English. Doorways to N & S and wall-shafts for vaulting, all with trumpet capitals. 3-bay sedilia, combined aumbry & piscina, cusped heads. Cusped tomb recess(?) on N.
References: Kilvert's Diary (1870); R Haslam, Powys,
1979; H J Massingham, The Southern Marches, 1952, 144-6.
Listed for its significance in the 19th-century religious revival.
Nearby in the register
- The MonasteryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-boxCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- St. Mary's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.