In my late Gran's village of Rodington in Shropshire, the pub and church are opposite
one another .. as they are in Newton, Porthcawl where I work.
Kind regards,
Natalie
in Barry
Vale of Glamorgan
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From: John Ball <john(a)jlb2005.plus.com>
To: powys(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Mon, 12 April, 2010 8:32:20
Subject: Re: [POWYS] Churches and Pubs
Venita Roylance <venitar(a)mac.com> wrote:
Just a note of fascinating interest, to me at least. When I visited Wales a
few years ago, we began to notice that the village pub was never far from
the parish church, often just across the street. After we picked up on
that, we looked for them in every village we visited. When we found a
particular church we looked around for the nearby pub. We were seldom
disappointed. Has anyone else noticed the same thing? You've photographed
hundreds of churches, John. Did you find pubs near all of them?
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Dear Listers,
It is true that many parish churches are situated close to a village inn,
probably because the village community developed around the parish church.
But there are many exceptions.
For example, I recently photographed St Michael's Church at Cathedine (BRE)
and St Maelog's Church at Llandyfaelog Fach (BRE) neither of which has a pub
nearby. Nor indeed does St Bilo's Church at Llanfilo (BRE), which I believe
you yourself have visited and photographed. I'm sure Listers can suggest
other examples of 'pub-less churches'!
In some of these cases, the local inn may have closed and been converted to
other uses, but I still maintain that examples can be found of parish
churches that have never had a pub nearby.
It would be interesting to do a survey of (say) 100 randomly selected parish
churches, to see what proportion are pub-less. Any volunteers?
Kind regards,
John
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