Best of South Wales
The 20 best abbeys & priories in South Wales
Our curated top 20 abbeys & priories in South Wales, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 30 abbeys & priories see the full abbeys & priories index for South Wales.
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Tintern Abbey
Tintern Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Tyndyrn ) is a ruined medieval abbey adjacent to the village of Tintern in Monmouthshire, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye, which at this location forms the border betwee
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Dore Abbey: a Cistercian monastery
Details The monument includes the earthwork and buried remains of the claustral buildings and parts of the outer court and wider precinct of the Cistercian abbey at Dore, as well as the standing remai
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Market Hall, Monmouth
The Market Hall, in Priory Street, Monmouth, Wales, is an early Victorian building by the prolific Monmouth architect George Vaughan Maddox. It was constructed in the years 1837–39 as the centrepiece
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Church Street, Monmouth
Church Street is a pedestrianised street in the centre of Monmouth, Wales. It contains a variety of independent shops, restaurants, commercial art galleries, and the Savoy Theatre. Until the 1830s, wh
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Llanthony Priory
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Talley Abbey
Talley Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Talyllychau) is a ruined former monastery of the Premonstratensians ("White Canons") in the village of Talley in Carmarthenshire, Wales, six miles (10 km) north of the marke
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Usk Castle
Usk Castle (Welsh: Castell Brynbuga) is a castle site in the town of Usk in central Monmouthshire, south-east Wales, United Kingdom. It was listed Grade I on 16 February 1953. Within the castle, and i
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St Mellon's Church
St Mellons Parish Church, also previously called St Melan's church, is a Church in Wales parish church in the Diocese of Monmouth in Old St Mellons, Cardiff, Wales. It was built around the 13th centur
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Church of Saint Basil, Bassaleg
St Basil's Church stands in the village of Bassaleg, to the west of the city of Newport, Wales. It is an active parish church and a Grade II* listed building. St Basil's sits within the Tredegar Park
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Llantarnam Abbey
Llantarnam Abbey is a Grade II*-listed house of the Sisters of St Joseph of Annecy and the site of a former 12th-century Cistercian abbey located in Llantarnam, Cwmbran, in the county borough of Torfa
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Whitland Abbey
Whitland Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Hendy-gwyn ar Daf or simply Y Tŷ Gwyn ar Daf; Latin: Albalanda) was a country house and Cistercian abbey in the parish of Llangan, in what was the hundred of Narberth, Pem
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St James's Church
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Capel-y-ffin Monastery
Llanthony Abbey is a former Anglican monastic institution founded in 1869 by Joseph Leycester Lyne (Father Ignatius), in the Welsh village of Capel-y-ffin, a few miles from the medieval Llanthony Prio
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Monmouth Priory
Monmouth Priory, in Priory Street, Monmouth, Wales, is a building that incorporates the remains of the monastic buildings attached to St Mary's Priory Church. The priory was a Benedictine foundation o
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Parish Church of St Elli
The Church of St Elli, Llanelly, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a parish church with its origins in the 14th century. The church underwent three major restorations, in 1867–1868, 1897 and 1910–1911. It rema
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