A very early
start to visit the small medieval church of St Partishow in the Black Mountains
at dawn for research as part of the Arts Council Creative Wales Award that I am
currently working on.
Partishow, or St
Issui, stands on a hill amongst the mountains and has one of the most
extraordinary oak rood screens that have survived.
The simple
whitewashed walls are also decorated with pre-Reformation paintings and at the
west end is a closed off hermit’s cell and chapel.
Because it is
surrounded by mountains and hills, dawn is about an half-an-hour later than
normal. Inside the church all is still
quite dark and outside there is just a glimmer of dawn in the East.
Inside, everything is still quite dark.
Eventually the
sun rises over the mountains and floods the valley surrounding the church with
light.
I can now head
home with notes on how to use the church at this time of morning
for a performance – watch this space for more details …
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