This cache is small, please bring your own writing tool. It can be used as a quick cache and dash, but it is worth taking a minute or two to enjoy the scenery. Please replace where found.
St Edmund's church was built at the end of the 12th century by Lady Sybil Pauncefote who inherited the Castle from her father, Sir Hugh Turberville whose family had been granted the Lordship by Bernard de Newmarch, the Norman Lord of Brecon after the Conquest.
The church is surprisingly large. It was originally cruciform in shape, the present side-aisles being added during the 19th Century.
When the church needed to accommodate more people in 1830, local homeowners were given the option to purchase pews to fund the building of a new aisle. This was the first example of funds being raised in this manner. These pews were tied to the house of the owner in perpetuity, and one such pew 'belonged' to the house I grew up in.
If anybody would like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first at churchmicro@gmail.com so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication.
There is also a Church Micro Stats & Information page found via the Bookmark list
Placed with kind permission of Brecon Beacons National Park Authority