The Monastery is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 September 1961. Monastery.
The Monastery
- WRENN ID
- distant-newel-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 September 1961
- Type
- Monastery
- Address
- The Monastery, Capel-Y-Ffin, Abergacenny, Llanigon, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 251 313
- Coordinates
- 51.97593, -3.0908
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Monastery is a Grade II listed building constructed mainly of stone and features two storeys with roofs made of slate, tile, and corrugated asbestos. It exhibits a Freestyle early medieval style, with windows that have both pointed and square heads, some being chamfered and others plain. The northwest porch includes an ashlar buttress and a corbelled-out upper floor.
Inside, the refectory has ceiling beams supported on corbels. There is a room that served as a temporary chapel from 1924 to 1925, which later became the studio of Eric Gill. This room features a mural of the crucifixion by David Jones, and there are inscriptions on the beams that may also be by Jones.
Local climate
The Monastery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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