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The feature below was first shown on my website on 5 April 1998

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Images of Wales

Sunday, 5 April 1998



Maesyronnen Chapel,
near Glasbury, Radnorshire

Except where indicated, photography by John Ball - 28 Mar 1998
with Agfa ePhoto-307 digital camera


Maesyronnen Chapel

This old Dissenters' chapel (above and below) is said to preserve the atmosphere of humility and domestic warmth which is lacking in more pretentious larger chapels. The chapel was converted in 1696 from a 16th-century farmhouse and barn.

Maesyronnen Chapel (interior)
Photography by Anthony Jones, from his book Welsh Chapels published in 1996
by Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, Gloucestershire; ISBN 0-7509-1162-X

Maesyronnen Chapel is set in an isolated location in the beautiful south Radnorshire countryside (see below). For further details of the chapel, see the Powys Digital History Project website.

Black Mountains

Above: The green fields of Radnorshire, with Breconshire's Black Mountains in the distance.


Cilkenny Dingle

Above: Woodland in Cilkenny Dingle near Maesyronnen Chapel.


Cilkenny Dingle

Above: A quiet clearing in Cilkenny Dingle.

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