Fourteen miles from Abergavenny and eight miles from Hay-on-Wye the hamlet of Capel-y-ffin is situated. It stands in the Black Mountains region of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The monks at the monastery at Capel-y-ffin had a hard life. Everyday they had to take it in turns to be led to the cloister with a halter, they were then spat on and walked over by the rest of the monks to earn their bread for that day. Father Ignatius once wrote, 'We never allow ourselves to think....‘It is all decided for us', referring to the ban on reading anything except the Bible.
Father Ignatius (Joseph Leycester Lyne) built the monastery at Capel-y-ffin a few decades before artist Eric Gill and his associates came to the monastery to live and work, it was at Capel-y-ffin that Gill designed the Perpetua and Gill Sans typefaces.
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