Church Micro 10309...Llannon. Traditional Cache
Hidden : 11/30/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Another in our series of Church Micros in the South Wales area.

Not within the Church precincts, so please don't search in the grounds.

On street parking available nearby, this is a residential area so please park courteously and make as little noise as possible.

BYOP and tweezers

St Nons Church is a Grade II listed building, constructed of local rubble stone. It consists of three-bayed nave, two-bayed chancel, three-bayed south aisle, two-storey vestry/boilerhouse and three-storey west tower. The nave and chancel are medieval, and may date to the thirteenth to fourteenth century. North and south transepts were formerly present, and may date to before around 1500, when most of the south transept is thought to have been absorbed into the newly added south aisle. Two bells were noted in the sixteenth century.

There are eighteenth-nineteenth century burial vaults below the chancel, nave and south aisle. The vestry was present by 1873. The font dates to the twentieth century. The Church was renovated during the 1970s, largely using local labour. The eighteenth century south aisle vaults were rediscovered at this time, and the west window unblocked and restored.

Llannon has deep historical links with the Rebecca Riots and there is even rumoured to be a
"secret passage" under the main road running through the village, this passage was said to have been used by Oliver Cromwell and possibly the Rebecca Rioters as an escape route. The passage runs from the Red Lion public house to St Nons Church.

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