Crunwear Parish Church, Pembrokeshire
Photographs taken 9th June 2000
by Venita Roylance (with a Kodak digital camera) and
John Ball (with a Sony Mavica MVC-FD91 digital camera)
Crunwear (in Welsh, Cronwern) is a small rural parish about 4 miles south-east of Narberth in South Pembrokeshire.
The parish church is located on a hillside in an isolated spot, surrounded by fields, at the end of a track leading from the main A477 Carmarthen to Pembroke road.
The photographs were taken around noon on a warm sunny June day.
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Photography by John Ball
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Photography by Venita Roylance
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Above: The church is approached along this track across a field in which cattle were grazing. The cattle came over to investigate the intrusion.
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Photography by John Ball
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| The church and churchyard (above) are surrounded by a stone wall through which access is gained via an iron gate or over a stone stile (below). |
Photography by Venita Roylance
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Photography by John Ball
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Above: The porch entrance in the south wall of the church was added in 1878. The arch over the doorway is embellished with cement mouldings (below left).
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Photography by John Ball
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Photography by John Ball
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Above right: The church tower and porch entrance viewed from the south.
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Photography by John Ball
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Above: Looking eastwards from near the church entrance, across a badly overgrown section of the graveyard towards the Pembrokeshire countryside beyond.
Below: Looking eastwards across the newer and better tended section of the graveyard. The entrance to the churchyard is hidden by the trees on the far right.
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Photography by John Ball
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Acknowledgement
Many thanks to Venita Roylance of Provo, Utah, USA, for allowing me to use her photographs of Crunwear Church. Visit Venita's website at http://www.venitap.com/home.html
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