St Helen's, Llanellen, Abergavenny 21 January 2014
A finely executed urn; this symbolised the repository of the soul and is frequently shown with another symbol, the drape.
St Helen's Church (Helen was the mother of Constantine The Great) gives its name to the tiny hamlet of Llanellen. The church is 12th Century with the addition of a rather incongruous Victorian Gothic bell tower containing two bells. The earliest recorded incumbent of the church was John ap Adam. During the Civil War, there was a Roundhead encampment on the slopes of the dominating Blorenge Mountain and for whatever reason, ten of them are buried in the churchyard. The vicar of this time Richard Watkins, was evicted by the Puritans for using the Prayer Book, but later re-instated.
St Helen's, Llanellen, Abergavenny 21 January 2014
A finely executed urn; this symbolised the repository of the soul and is frequently shown with another symbol, the drape.
St Helen's Church (Helen was the mother of Constantine The Great) gives its name to the tiny hamlet of Llanellen. The church is 12th Century with the addition of a rather incongruous Victorian Gothic bell tower containing two bells. The earliest recorded incumbent of the church was John ap Adam. During the Civil War, there was a Roundhead encampment on the slopes of the dominating Blorenge Mountain and for whatever reason, ten of them are buried in the churchyard. The vicar of this time Richard Watkins, was evicted by the Puritans for using the Prayer Book, but later re-instated.