Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
16103
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
20/06/1995  
Date of Amendment
20/06/1995  
Name of Property
The Monastery Church, Capel-y-Ffin  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Llanigon  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
325201  
Northing
231405  
Street Side
 
Location
 

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
 

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.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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