Capel-y-ffin
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 '36.9 " N , 3 ° 5' 10.9" W.
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Capel-y-ffin is a hamlet near the border between Wales and England . It is located in the County of Powys , Wales, in the Black Mountains and is part of the Brecon Beacons National Park . The nearest town is Hay-on-Wye , approximately 13 km to the northwest.
history
The chapel
Capel-y-ffin means "border chapel" because the place in the Honddu river valley, near the border of Monmouthshire in Wales and Herefordshire in England, and the borders of the Anglican dioceses Hereford ( Church of England ) and St Davids and Llandaff ( Church in Wales ) lies. The actual chapel is dedicated to St. Mary and was built in 1762 in place of an earlier building from the 15th century. It originally belonged to the parish church of Llanigon , but is now a separate parish. With an interior space of only 8 by 4 meters, the chapel is one of the smallest in Wales; it reminded Francis Kilvert (diary author, 1840–79) of an owl. A Baptist chapel, built in 1762, lies on the other bank of the Honddu.
The hamlet was one of the last Welsh speaking places in Wales.
The monastery
In 1869 Joseph Leycester Lyne , who called himself "Father Ignatius," bought 32 acres of land in Capel-y-ffin to build an Anglican monastery near the ruins of the Llanthony rectory. With the help of his fellow monks and local masons, he built 'Llanthony Tertia', which, according to Francis Kilvert, was an eccentric form of monastic life until Lye's death in 1908. Lyne is buried in the monastery church, which is partly in ruins today due to the unsound construction and subsequent neglect. There is a foundation dedicated to the renovation of the church and a pilgrimage is held every year between the rectory of Llanthony and Capel-y-ffin.
Lyne's religious beliefs became apparent in 1880 through visions of the Virgin Mary in the monastery and in neighboring fields witnessed by monks and local farm boys. A farm, The Vision Farm, south-east of the hamlet, renamed as the result of these phenomena, and appear, at least with his name in the novel On the Black Hill of Bruce Chatwin , although the author they moved to another place.
From August 1924 to October 1928 the artist Eric Gill lived with his disciples in the former monastery. Here he designed the Perpetua and Gill Sans fonts . The poet and artist David Jones , who painted the local landscape, was also part of this group. Jones is one of the characters in Owen Sheers ' novel Resistance , which is set in the nearby Olkhon Valley.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/270792
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated July 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ EG Ravenstein: Celtic Languages of the British Isles. 1878
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/649004 photo of monastery
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated September 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ On Black Mountain ( On The Black Hill ). Novel. 1982. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-10294-4
- ^ J. Miles: Eric Gill & David Jones at Capel-y-ffin. 1992, ISBN 1-85411-051-9
Web links
- Ben Mallalieu: A spiritual journey - The hushed atmosphere of Capel-y-ffin has attracted monks, poets and artists for centuries ( Memento from January 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), The Guardian , May 3, 2006