Penmon Priory

We went on our annual visit to Penmon to see the lighthouse and eat a bacon bap at the Pilot Café.   We stopped at St. Seiriol to admire the Romanesque church first established by King Einion in the early sixth century and re-established as an Augustinian Priory in the 1220s.   It’s satisfyingly simple, on the edge of the Straits, with the Prior’s House still occupied, but not by a Prior, next door:-

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Inside there’s good romanesque detailing on the side of the arches of the crossing and in the south transept:-

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Outside is the Dovecot, thought to be early seventeenth century, as described by Pevsner, a ‘Pantheon for pigeons’:-

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I also like the little corrugated iron shed where the man sits to take the tolls for the road out to the sea:-

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