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Llangatwg Feibion Afel, in a little valley north-west of Monmouth, is one of Monmouthshire’s most remote churches. As you approach from a lane through fields, you might think you’ve discovered

When the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, all of England's land belonged to the Crown. Most was held by the French elite who'd come to power 20 years earlier.One

It's 1671 and John Gwin, a pillar of the community of Llangwm Uchaf, is the church warden. Fierce disputes have broken out and Gwin writes in his precious book of

So many of our churches occupy the edges. The liminal spaces. Clinging to crumbling coastlines, sinking into saltmarshes, up a mountain hanging, literally, between heaven and earth. Their landscape is

Last month, we pulled back a door mat at Boveney church and revealed a tile stamped with the maker’s name: Garrett Brothers, Burslem.Not one of the usual tile makers, we

On this day in 1993, our founder, Ivor Bulmer-Thomas died. Just days before, he was working on the repair of our church at Sutterby. A proud Welshman, Ivor changed the

The Marches Way is a 281-mile path that runs the length of the border between England and Wales, linking Chester and Cardiff. As you might imagine, it picks up some

In cool corners of churchyards, among rows of the dead, you’ll find some of oldest living things.Yew trees form amorphous sentinels in burial grounds. Veteran yews are at least 500

Robert Roberts was a north-Walian quarryman. His death on 23 April 1888 resulted in a churchyard break-in by candlelight, an illicit burial, and the rise of a Prime Minister.All because

Did you know the word 'pew' is derived from Latin 'podia' via Old French 'puie', meaning 'balcony' or 'balustrade'? And that most churches didn’t have seating until the 1200s?Interest piqued?

Standing in a historic church, you may have a strong sense of the shifting sands of time, but perhaps nowhere more than at St. Andrew's, Wood Walton, Cambridgeshire - our

After the nave at Eastwell church, Kent collapsed in 1951, the monuments were relocated to @V_and_A. During dismantling, conservators found that animal bones had been used as ties between masonry