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
Country: Wales
Date first listed: 28 September 1961
Type: Monastery
Source: Cadw listing

Description

Stone, mainly 2-storeys, slate, tile & corrugated asbestos roofs. Freestyle early mediaeval, windows with pointed & square heads, chamfered & plain. A porch on NW has an ashlar buttress and corbelled-out upper floor.

Refectory with ceiling beams on corbels. A room which became a temporary chapel in 1924-5 and was later Eric Gill’s studio has a mural of the crucifixion by David Jones. Inscriptions on beams may also be by Jones.

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