Latitude: 51.9759 / 51°58'33"N
Longitude: -3.0908 / 3°5'26"W
OS Eastings: 325172
OS Northings: 231391
OS Grid: SO251313
Mapcode National: GBR F2.KPZ6
Mapcode Global: VH78D.CLWM
Plus Code: 9C3RXWG5+9M
Entry Name: The Monastery
Listing Date: 28 September 1961
Last Amended: 20 June 1995
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 6619
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Llanthony Abbey
The Monastery, Capel-Y-Ffin
ID on this website: 300006619
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.
County: Powys
Town: Abergacenny
Community: Llanigon
Community: Llanigon
Locality: Capel-y-Ffin
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Monastery Architectural structure
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.
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.
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.
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 [email protected]]
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