Holy water stoups, St. John the Evangelist - Brecon, Powys
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Holy water stoups at the entrance to St. John the Evangelist, Brecon Cathedral.
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Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/27/2014
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Holy water stoups at the entrance to St. John the Evangelist, Brecon Cathedral.
"In 1093, the Norman castle of Brecon was founded by Bernard de Neufmarche who gave a church "the church of St John the Evangelist without the walls" to Roger, a monk from the Benedictine Abbey of Battle, Sussex. The community founded at Brecon became a priory of the Abbey of Battle. The church was rebuilt from around 1230, and only a few pieces of masonry and the font remain from the C11 church. The nave of the first church and its replacement were also used as parish church; this use continued after the Dissolution until the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon was formed in 1923, and the former Priory church became its Cathedral. "
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