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
6619
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
28/09/1961  
Date of Amendment
20/06/1995  
Name of Property
The Monastery  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Llanigon  
Town
Abergacenny  
Locality
Capel-y-Ffin  
Easting
325172  
Northing
231391  
Street Side
S  
Location
The Monastery stands on a hillside to the west of the church at Capel-y-ffin, on an unregistered road, approx 3.5 miles NW of Llanthony.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

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 the renowned artist Eric Gill 1924, as a Catholic self-supporting community of the Ditchling Guild.  

Exterior
Stone, mainly 2-storeys, slate, tile & corrugated asbestos roofs. Freestyle early mediaeval, windows with pointed & square heads, chamfered & plain. A porch on NW has an ashlar buttress and corbelled-out upper floor.  

Interior
Refectory with ceiling beams on corbels. A room which became a temporary chapel in 1924-5 and was later Eric Gill’s studio has a mural of the crucifixion by David Jones. Inscriptions on beams may also be by Jones.  

Reason for designation
Listed for its significance in the 19th century religious revival and association with Eric Gill. [This description is under review, pending reinspection (August 2023). For more details contact cadw@gov.wales]  

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