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You’ll find the church at Llangeview down a single-track country lane. In an ancient circular churchyard, it sits softly resplendent.
Its Old Red Sandstone walls are stippled with uneven grains of the sand, from burnished reds and ochres to pools of olive green.
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Its Old Red Sandstone walls are stippled with uneven grains of the sand, from burnished reds and ochres to pools of olive green.
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The earliest recorded mention of St David’s church is in 1254, however, the almost circular churchyard surrounded by a bank and itself encircled by a ditch suggests occupation of this Monmouthshire site dates far beyond its 13th-century records.
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Most the surviving building dates from the 15th century: the windows, the rood beam and loft all date to this century.
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In the early 7th century, St Peulan chose a bumpy knoll at the end of an isolated causeway on Anglesey to build his church. Raised up out of the earth, surveying the surrounding patchwork fields, it is a beacon in the landscape.
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St Peulan was a pupil of St David and later a follower of St Cybi. After his adventures in Ireland with Cybi and Cyngar, Peulan returned to Wales. Sadly, but perhaps not surprisingly, nothing of Peulan’s original church survives.
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The oldest part of the church is tucked behind the pews at the west end. It’s a hefty, rectangular font. And was possibly carved as early as the 11th century. There’s decoration on four sides: blind arcading, a chevron frieze, a chequerboard panel and a ringed cross.
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