St Brides Major
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St. Brides Major is a village within the community also called St Brides Major in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales.
Fox and Hounds pub, St. Bride's Major
Ewenny Priory
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Ewenny Priory, in Ewenny in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, was a monastery of the Benedictine order, founded in the 12th century. The priory was unusual in having extensive military-style defences and
St Brides Major
…a Parish in its own right, co-inciding with the civil parish and more recently community boundaries. Until the Reformation the Church was, along with Ewenny Priory and other local churches, a possession of Gloucester Abbey, both having been given to the abbey in 1141. It contains a number of medieval tombs and…
"The most complete and impressive Norman ecclesiastical building in Glamorgan"
Transept of Ewenny Priory by J. M. W. Turner
An engraving of the priory complex from 1741
Ewenny Priory exterior