Modest and unassuming from the outside, Stoke Orchard's little church has many features showing its origins in about 1170.
Stoke Orchard, Gloucestershire
It is the inside that makes the church so special, as its walls are covered in a wonderful jumble of paintings, with fragments and layers from many centuries on top of, behind, and around one another.
The earliest paintings are the ones that are most celebrated. They depict the life of St James of Compostela and date from the early 13th century. They are the only ones of their kind in Britain.
Parts of paintings from the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries also survive, some scraped back in the 1880s and 1950s so as to reveal more of the St James pictures.
The church also has a Norman font and many other features, ranging from the 12th to the 19th centuries.
Petrisw, Powys
Cyrhaeddir yr eglwys hon trwy deithio naill ai ar hyd lonydd troellog sy’n gyforiog o flodau, neu ar hyd llwybr troed. Wrth gyrraedd, fe welwch yr eglwys ganoloesol hon yn sefyll ar lethrau’r Grwyne Fawr, yn edrych heibio cwm bychan at lethrau Mynydd Pen-y-Fâl yr ochr draw.
Capel y Ffin, Powys
Lleolir eglwys Sant Mair, Capel y Ffin yn nyffryn cudd yr afon Honddu, gyda’r Mynyddoedd Du i’r gorllewin iddi a Chlawdd Offa i’r dwyrain. Mae’n fan lle mae celfyddyd a thirwedd yn ymdoddi i’w gilydd – ac nid yw’n syndod felly iddi ddenu arlunwyr a beirdd am ganrifoedd.
Llaneleu, Powys
Mae’r eglwys anghysbell hon yn sefyll yng nghanol mynwent helaeth, hynafol yn nyfnderoedd y Mynyddoedd Du, ym Mharc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog.
