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St. Teilo's Church. Llantilio Pertholey

St. Peter's Church

The church of St. Peter at Henllys, Cwmbran, is an ancient building of local stone, in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells.

Cwmyoy Church : Cwmyoy, Llanthony Valley : Black Mountains, Wales

The church at Cwmyoy is something of a curiosity. Above it on the skyline, a great gouge has been taken out of the mountain. This has given the church and village its name, ‘the valley of the yoke’. According to local tradition, the landslide was the result of the earthquake during Christ’s crucifixion, when there was darkness over the whole land and the veil of the Temple was torn in two. The scientific explanation is more prosaic. The whole of the Honddu valley is glacial. When the wall of ice melted, it left a typically U-shaped valley. Parts of the sheer walls of this valley then collapsed, creating the jagged skyline, and the church at Cwm-iou was built on the spoil from the landslide.

Unfortunately, the ground had not finished settling when the church was built, and the building has been twisted in all directions by subsidence. It is a tribute to the skill of the original masons that it is still standing. The tower is buttressed in two directions, but it was still being used for bell-ringing until recently. The tower leans uphill, the chancel arch leans downhill and the floors and walls between them buckle alarmingly.

St. Teilos Church, Llantilio Crossenny, Monmouthshire.

There has been a church here since 500AD.