Capel-y-ffin

Capel-y-ffin

Capel-y-ffin is a hamlet [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/87632] in Powys, south Wales, some 14 miles from Abergavenny and 8 miles from Hay-on-Wye on the English-Welsh border, in the Black Mountains [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/270792] region within Brecon Beacons National Park.

It has a very small white Welsh chapel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/145182] .

From August 1924 to October 1928, artist Eric Gill and his followers lived and worked in the monastery at Capel-y-ffin, which had been built by Father Ignatius (Joseph Leycester Lyne) a few decades previously. It was there that he designed the typefaces Perpetua and Gill Sans. The artist David Jones also lived at Capel-y-ffin & painted several pictures of local scenery.

External links

* [http://travel.guardian.co.uk/article/2006/may/03/unitedkingdom.onlocationfilminspiredtravel.culturaltrips "The Guardian": "A spiritual journey - The hushed atmosphere of Capel-y-ffin has attracted monks, poets and artists for centuries"]


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