Llanbadarn Fawr

 

 Llanbadarn Fawr

Llanbadarn Fawr Church is situated a few miles north of Llandrindod Wells, close to Crossways.  The existing church is a Victorian re-build of an earlier Norman Church on the same site. The church is not within any identifiable community

The drone photographs reveal for the first time the details of the significant earthworks to the north of the church. The photographs show a system of bank enclosures within which there is evidence of ridge and furrow ploughing. The earthworks appear to go under the church yard.  The A483 cuts through these. Interpretation of these earthworks is uncertain with some aspects being particularly puzzling. However, it is likely that they relate to a pre-Norman use, probably water management in the form of fish ponds, by the site by the original Celtic church. Opposite the present church is a circular platform which may be the site of the original Celtic clas: the origin of the church.

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