Churches in PowysPowys, Wales

Former Benedictine priory church set in the only walled cathedral close in Wales, mostly 13th and 14th century.

Brecon

Grade I listed 12th-century pilgrimage church in the Tanat Valley, holding the Romanesque shrine of St Melangell.

Pennant Melangell

Remote pilgrimage church at Partrishow in the Black Mountains, keeping a carved medieval rood screen and a rare painted doom figure.

Partrishow

Village church of 11th-century origin at the heart of Llangattock, opposite Crickhowell.

Llangattock

Parish church on the young River Wye, founded before 550 AD with the present building largely 15th-century.

Llangurig

Parish church near Sennybridge whose churchyard holds an ancient yew and an ogham-inscribed stone.

Defynnog

Small cruciform church near Brecon associated with Giraldus Cambrensis, with a holy well nearby.

Llanddew

Parish church in the centre of Talgarth, linked with the Methodist reformer Howell Harris.

Talgarth

Town church with a 15th-century hammerbeam roof and arcade said to have been brought from nearby Abbey Cwmhir.

Llanidloes

Tiny whitewashed church high in the Vale of Ewyas, with a leaning bellcote and ancient yews.

Capel-y-ffin

Black Mountains church housing the early medieval Catacus inscribed stone.

Cwmdu

Historic church by the River Vyrnwy, traditionally a burial place of the princes of Powys.

Meifod