Britain's crookedest church. St Martin's church, Cwmyoy.

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Britain's crookedest church. St Martin's church, Cwmyoy.

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A tour of St Martin's church in Cwmyoy, South Wales. The crookedest church in the UK with a bigger lean than the Tower of Pisa.
Also, a tour of St Issui's church, Partrishow. Another small, charming and isolated church located in the next valley.

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@stuartporter5428 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for your brilliant video. Our ancestors were very skilled and their work was outstanding in beauty, function and durabilty. Modern buildings and more modern materials would have fallen down after a few short years of subsidence. The old lime mortar is far more forgiving. Imagine building those churches using tools made by a blacksmith, and shaping all those stones by hand. Imagine chopping and shaping all those timbers, making those nails, wooden structures, doors, bells, glass/lead windows, and so on then transporting all that with horse and cart and building it with no power tools. All was organised without modern communications. True craftsmanship.

@martymartin2894 5 ай бұрын

What a lovely little church thanks for showing us it. Lovely country side all around too.

@garryferrington811 Ай бұрын

That's so peculiar I'm surprised it isn't more famous.

@lindacharles6581 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful churches,what a stunning setting too. I love it!

@marcelinatejada53 5 ай бұрын

Hello watching this great video new friend from Philippines 🇵🇭

@margeretpaert4435 5 ай бұрын

What a lovely well kept church..thank you for sharing...allways loved Wales and these wonderful churches... I love the church at menengall..and the story Of the hare..and prince.. That would be interesting The church called st mellengalls.... NOrth Wales ❤

@damedavidfrith55 Ай бұрын

What beautiful churches shame we lost so much

@jontalbot1 2 ай бұрын

In many ways a very typical Welsh church- small, plain, stone etc. But it’s also a tribute to medieval building methods. Extraordinary it’s still standing

@TheSearaider Ай бұрын

Thanks for this just discovered your channel very nice

@KhurshidsChannel 5 ай бұрын

Very lovely place. Thank you for sharing.

@dragoncrackers7660 2 ай бұрын

I really like the shots of the drive up to these buildings. Most videos just show the grounds of these old churches but I really like seeing what the countryside and villages look like also. Im from a small community in the US and our countryside is beautiful but we have mostly barbed-wire fencing, pole barns and the occasional abandoned homestead; nothing like old stone villages and walls... and that hilly landscape is just stunning to me.

@GazingMonkey 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. Maybe I should make some videos where I'm just driving through nice scenery & villages. There are some stunning places near me and I live on the edge of the Cotswolds which has beautiful old towns and villages.

@dragoncrackers7660 2 ай бұрын

@@GazingMonkey I'd watch it for sure.

@sicks6six 26 күн бұрын

great old building, St Olafs Wasdale is my favourite church, up to now, its the smallest parish church in Britain, I think,

@jacquelinemcgowan8164 5 ай бұрын

Excellent video churches lovely and surroundings thankyou for sharing ❤❤❤

@JOLENE2008 5 ай бұрын

this was awesome🥰

@kennethbowry1521 Ай бұрын

Great work thank you.

@Jon-xw9om 5 ай бұрын

Somehow so much more interesting than Pisa. Thanks

@stevenburgess2856 3 күн бұрын

You pronounced it very well! Cwm-yoi. The Welsh name is Cwm Iau (Cwm Y-eye) - Cwmyoy is an Anglisication. 'Iau' in English means Thursday or Jupiter.

@barrycrump6189 5 ай бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you.

@MsSpiffz 5 ай бұрын

I believe it was built on a pre-existing landslip, so the land under it was already unstable. The most impressive view is inside, where you can see that it's leaning in opposite directions.

@user-zr8pz9oj4p 4 ай бұрын

A great little piece of history. You have a new conscript, keep it up.

@JamieHarding5 5 ай бұрын

It's a really cool place. Looks beautiful. Great little walk and tour. Love the Sounds of the birds as you walk around. Your channel has took off fast.👏👏 I was your 4 or 5 sub 😁 You now have over 400 more. Many more will join soon. Look forward to your next one. Really good.👍

@GazingMonkey 5 ай бұрын

Thanks Jamie. My bothy video got me lots of subscribers so let's hope this one does the same. I watched your Grwyne Fawr video - I see you were up there not long after I was. I want to get out and do lots more videos but the weather is putting a dampener on things recently - everything looks better in sunlight I'm waiting for bright days to go out filming.

@JamieHarding5 5 ай бұрын

@@GazingMonkey No worries. Yes I was up not long after you. Been to two more since. One of them has a great story. Worth a look, it's near Aberystwyth. Perhaps you could watch that one. I'm going to try and be brave like you were and stay the night next time I visit. I must do it. Yes the weather hasn't been great at all. I was with your vids since the nutella one.👍 You'll do well and will grow fast. You explain things nicely. I wish you all the best. Thanks for the vids.👋

@jeanpearce8160 25 күн бұрын

What you called a gate house is lych-gate where a coffin was under shelter until the vicar/priest arrived

@denispowell7134 5 ай бұрын

At the very beginning of this video you'll see a building on the right hand side. That's where I lived as a small child. It was then the "Queen's Head Hotel". The path to St. Martin's from the other gate has a narrative engraved into the paving stones. Further up the valley you'll find the ruins of Llantony Priory and a little further, the tiny St Mary's Chapel in Capel-y-Ffin which is just 26 by 13 feet. In the nearby town of Abergavenny you'll find St. Mary's church which has been called "the Westminster Abbey of Wales" because of its large size, and the numerous high status tomb monuments and medieval effigies surviving within it. Anyone interested in old churches can fill a whole day on a tour of these places.

@GazingMonkey 5 ай бұрын

I'll have to check some of those places out and do the walk from the Queen's Head up to Cwmyoy. I've been to Llanthony priory many times, such an amazing setting. I'll have a look at the church in Abergavenny. I live in Hereford so it's all an easy drive away.

@denispowell7134 5 ай бұрын

The last time I was in St. Mary's Church they were hosting the touring exhibition of the Turin Shroud (A life sized "copy" of the shroud" plus photographs etc. I then went to the Tithe Barn next to the church to look around the gift shop there. I found a book on the Llantony Valley so purchased it. To my surprise it had a photograph of a WWII soldier with a machine gun mounted on the back of a horse. I'd found that same photograph in my mother's box of "secret" photographs that she never showed to anyone. This was after her death. It remains a mystery. I've traced some details of the soldier but my mother certainly wouldn't have known him at the time as she didn't go to Cwmyoy until 1948 and why she would have kept the photo we'll never know. @@GazingMonkey

@bowyerbob 21 күн бұрын

I remember camping around Cymyoy as a scout maybe 1962 and 63 in a field by a river that we swam in…..brought back great memories.

@markknight1011 5 ай бұрын

The balcony on the second church did look a bit slanted. Whether thats just my eyesight, I don’t know. Have you been to St Enodochs church in Cornwall, built in the middle of a golf course ?

@ersikillian 16 күн бұрын

The column at the second church could be a plague column.

@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey 4 ай бұрын

Maybe the second chapel with the grill window and predieu was a Hermitage or Anchorite chapel they would have not have had a glazed window originally heard the same service as the congregation and recieved the communion through the grill.

@cyan1616 3 ай бұрын

Yup, I was thinking the same thing. I immediately thought anchorite chapel, with maybe a cat for company.

@williamhiller3988 Ай бұрын

People were mostly illiterate, and the pictures helped tell the story.

@jacquelinetaylor8683 3 ай бұрын

Its either a crying chapel for women with babies in arms so they didnt disrupt the service or it could have been for people with leprosy. I favour the crying chapel .