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In the dead of night, along long deserted roads in Wales, strange lights appear. They’re most often seen flickering down coffin routes.The Welsh call them canwyllau cyrff – corpse candles.
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You wouldn't guess it by looking at the rural ruins of St. Andrew's, South Huish, in Devon, but they are connected with an invention that ignited the British Industrial Revolution
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There's nothing quite like the altar at St Marks, Brithdir, North Wales: burnished copper enriched with vines, roses, lilies and daffodils. Deep within the cavernous sanctuary, it glitters in the
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This is the story of John Jones, the most extraordinary Welshman you’ve never heard of. He was a carpenter, a poet, an architect for the Rothschilds, President of the Eisteddfod...
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Across the mid-Wales you’ll find cheerful cherubs, buxom and bucolic, “with cheeks like apples from a Herefordshire orchard”. Their golden curls light up dark church corners.They’re the work of the
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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?
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For 700 years, three Green Men at St Jeromes, Llangwm Uchaf have silently sprouted soft foliage from their enigmatic mouths.From floors to bosses, the Green Man is a popular presence
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It's our birthday! 63 today!On Wednesday 3rd July 1957, Ivor Bulmer-Thomas gathered Goodhart-Rendel, Lady Mander, Roy Jenkins, John Piper, Betjeman, TS Eliot and others. They formed a group to save
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The 12th-century font is original to the church at Castlemartin. The scalloped design is identical to the font in Hinton Blewitt, Somerset, over 100 miles away. At this time, fonts
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The Welsh have a word for the unattainable yearning you feel for a place that no longer exists, or to which you can never return.*Hiraeth* is a homesickness you feel
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The ancient church at Llandawke, Carmarthenshire nestles into a watery dell. Hidden from the roadside and encircled with trees, the churchyard is a picture of serenity and repose. But here,
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To enter some churchyards, you have to pass under a small shelter. Often they incorporate a stone platform and seats. They’re known as lychgates, and traditionally, bodies were kept here
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