Our recent holiday was in Pembrokeshire, but on the way there we stopped at one of my favourite places, Llanthony Priory (Welsh: Priordy Llanddewi Nant Hodni), in the Black Mountains, between Hay-on-Wye and Abergavenny.
It was a day with really low cloud, so much so that we had to drive very carefully through the clouds, up the single-track road to the priory, where sight was often no more than a few metres ahead. So this is the priory on a darker gray day, which I think gives you some idea what it would have been like when it was first built in the early 12th century.
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Kevin here gives you some sense of the scale of the priory
The building on the left is now a hotel, and has a bar in the monks old cellar.
Moi!
Very atmospheric!
Pauline took the exact words from me so I’ll just put ditto.