Capel-y-ffin
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Capel-y-ffin is a hamlet [1] in Powys, south Wales, some 14 miles from Abergavenny and 8 miles from Hay-on-Wye on the English-Welsh border, in the Black Mountains [2] region within Brecon Beacons National Park.
It has a very small white Welsh chapel [3].
From August 1924 to October 1928, artist Eric Gill and his followers lived and worked in the monastery at Capel-y-ffin, which had been built by Father Ignatius (Joseph Leycester Lyne) a few decades previously. It was there that he designed the typefaces Perpetua and Gill Sans. The artist David Jones also lived at Capel-y-ffin & painted several pictures of local scenery.
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