Sacred Wales

The breath taking coastal landscape of Wales has held allure for pilgrims, poets and travellers for millennia. Hundreds of ancient atmospheric Welsh churches are sited within a stones throw from, and even occasionally on, the beach, promontory or headland. Your journey will lead you through some of the most awe inspiring landscapes in the world.

Taking you to some of the finest sacred places in Wales, where impressive medieval churches with rich art and architecture abound. But, in some of the remotest spots you’ll be transported to another place entirely. From the mountainous wilds to a church cut off by the high tide. Stunning landscapes and little known pilgrim churches brimming with atmosphere.

From Cardiff to the Great Orme; take the back roads down the mountainous spine of Wales. Timeless simple out of the way chapels and picturesque town churches with a warm welcome, travel to the oldest unaltered non conformist place of worship in Wales, admire medieval glass and angel roofs, and be wowed by Arts & Crafts splendour and bold modern art.

It may seem an odd and perilous place to build a church, but St Cwyfan's originally stood at the end of a peninsula between two bays.

A sacred place of pilgrimage upon the site of an earlier 6th century monastery built by St David, the patron saint of Wales.

Soar y mynydd is the remotest chapel in Wales, its name is Welsh for 'Zour of the mountain'.

It is known that the present church on the island dates back to the 1400s but it is not known who built the church and why.

Thousands of people come here every year to see the grave of poet Dylan Thomas, marked by a simple white cross.

Llanddwyn Island (Ynys Llanddwyn) is a magical place.

St Mark was built 1895-1898 to the designs of Henry Wilson and is one of the few full blooded Arts & Crafts churches in Wales.

Stands on a site where there has been Christian worship for nearly fifteen centuries, dating back to the mission of St Teilo in the 6th century.

Tal y llyn sits in a huge churchyard which throws into relief its diminutive scale.

St Kentigern built his church here in 560, later leaving it to St Asaph. This Gothic cathedral is said to be the smallest in the UK.

This remote 13th century church has a complete medieval roof. Originally a sailor's chapel of ease, it has stunning sea views.

The Metropolitan Cathedral is in the heart of Cardiff, offering a place of worship to people who both visit and work in the capital.

Bethania chapel , from 1908, is by Sir William Beddoe Rees in the classical 'beaux arts' style.

This is a place to connect with the ancients and the elemental; a medieval pilgrimage chapel in a dramatic setting, perched on a cliff face above the Atlantic sea, approached down a flight of worn stone steps.

You can’t get a chapel much older than Maesyronnen, it is considered one of the most important buildings in Wales.

Welcome to the Year of Discovery.

Exploring the family of touring routes that lead you through the heart of Wales.

Welcome everybody, many of our churches are remote and full of atmosphere.

Telling the story of Welsh chapels.

The Anglican church in Wales, with 900 parishes.