Llanthony Priory

A trip to this 900 year old ruin is the highlight of the day for us. We are looking at it, almost in its entirety, from the back.

Remote Llanthony, locked away in a dramatic location in the Vale of Ewyas beneath the brooding borderland Black Mountains that rise abruptly from this evocative ruin, still radiates that spirit of isolation and contemplation. Norman knight William de Lacy founded a hermitage here when he — untypical of the times — abandoned war and embraced religion. By 1118 Llanthony had become a monastery of Augustinian canons, which continued until it was suppressed in 1539.
More info: cadw.gov.wales/visit/places-to-visit/llanthony-priory

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