Sacred Spaces

 Alan from the Local History Society was going round with a plastic bag full of the new booklet compiled by the Brecknock History Forum, so I bought one (cost £5).

It's a list of 100 lesser known sacred spaces across Breconshire - they have included some interesting standing stones, as well as Christian places of worship, and they have also included places which have been demolished, and others that have been converted to other uses.  There are good photos for each entry.

Hay is represented by two entries around St Mary's Church - what is supposed to be an effigy of Matilda de Braos, and the Gwynne Memorial stone.

The entries are also marked to show the presence of ancient yew trees - a red label for a tree over 800 years old, and a green label for a 'veteran' tree of over 500 years old.

There are also maps to make it easier to find the churches, chapels and standing stones, together with map references and the What3Words code e.g. radiates.enthused.frog for St David's Church, Tirabad, the only Georgian Chapel in Wales.

I've been to quite a few of the places mentioned, back when I had access to transport and we went church hunting in our little blue van, but there are plenty of places here I didn't know about and would like to visit some time.