St. Anno, Llananno

The Friends of Friendless Churches looks after this small Victotian church just below the A483 beside the River Ithon and easy to miss.  It looks a tiny bit unpromising, but inside has a most spectacular, spotlit rood screen,  partially restored in the nineteenth century – the figures are Victorian – but still with a great deal of lively, late fifteenth-century wood carving, by carvers of the School of Newtown.

This is a view of the church from the adjacent track:-

The entrance to the church by the South Door is reached by a steep and narrow path through the churchyard:-

The first view of the interior:-

The screen:-

Details of the carving:-

And the light on the wall of the chancel:-

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