Images of Wales

Brychgoed Chapel is situated in a remote and isolated position on a ridge high above the valleys of the rivers Crai and Senni in the Brecon Beacons National Park. I first visited Brychgoed Chapel in March 1999 while looking for graves of a HAVARD family as part of a photographic commission for a client in Australia. The photographs below were taken during a more recent visit on a warm, humid, and rather hazy day in May. The atmospheric conditions enhanced the sense of peace and tranquillity which surrounds this old chapel.

Above: Approaching Brychgoed Chapel from the north. The photograph demonstrates the remoteness of its location. The white building partially hidden by the trees on the right of the picture is Clwyd-waen-dŵr Farm.

Above: Brychgoed Chapel, deep in the Breconshire countryside.

Above: Brychgoed Chapel, viewed from the western boundary of its burial yard.

Above: The north wall of Brychgoed Chapel. The building appears to be well-maintained.

Above: This plaque, high on the north wall, tells us (in Welsh) that the chapel was first erected in 1740, and re-built in 1844 by the Independents.

Above: Near the southeast corner of the burial yard is this entrance protected by an iron kissing-gate.

Above: The view looking northwards across the chapel burial yard. The gravestones near the edge of the chapelyard are more recent than those in the foreground.

Above: Gravestones near the north-eastern corner of the chapel burial yard.