Photography by John Ball - 26 May 2004 (with a Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom digital camera)

Brychgoed Chapel is situated in a remote and isolated position on a ridge high above the valleys of the rivers Crai and Senni in the Brecon Beacons National Park. I first visited Brychgoed Chapel in March 1999 while looking for graves of a HAVARD family as part of a photographic commission for a client in Australia. The photographs below were taken during a more recent visit on a warm, humid, and rather hazy day in May. The atmospheric conditions enhanced the sense of peace and tranquillity which surrounds this old chapel.

Brychgoed Chapel

Image 1:

Approaching Brychgoed Chapel from the north. The photograph demonstrates the remoteness of its location. The white building partially hidden by the trees on the right of the picture is Clwyd-waen-dŵr Farm.

Image 2:

Brychgoed Chapel, deep in the Breconshire countryside.

Image 3:

Brychgoed Chapel, viewed from the western boundary of its burial yard.

Image 4:

The north wall of Brychgoed Chapel. The building appears to be well-maintained.

Image 5:

This plaque, high on the north wall, tells us (in Welsh) that the chapel was first erected in 1740, and re-built in 1844 by the Independents.

Brychgoed Chapel Graveyard

Image 6:

Near the southeast corner of the burial yard is this entrance protected by an iron kissing-gate.

Image 7:

The view looking northwards across the chapel burial yard. The gravestones near the edge of the chapelyard are more recent than those in the foreground.

Image 8:

Gravestones near the north-eastern corner of the chapel burial yard.

Continue the exploration of Brychgoed Chapel graveyard on Page 2