Colva's church stand more or less alone, peeping south through its bower of yew trees high up in the Radnorshire hills.
Colva, Powys
The church is basically 13th century, but with 15th century century additions, including the deep timbered porch with stone seats.
Inside, 18th century memorials on the walls overlay traces of earlier wall paintings, and a skull and crossbones is a reminder of mortality. The font is 12th century, probably from an earlier church that stood in this remote, beautiful place.
Gladestry, Powys
Huntington, Herefordshire
St Thomas a Becket church is reputed to have been erected in the early 13th century as part of the penance of one of the murderers of Becket in 1170 and possibly stands on the site of an earlier Saxon church.
Old Radnor, Powys
Burned during the Glyndwr risings in 1401, St Stephen's is a church with a history to rival any castle, , with a rare surviving medieval rood screen and possibly the oldest organ in the UK.
