Ancient chapel beneath the severn bridge

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/explore-mysterious-chapel-island-hidden-9551612?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

Local to me and in fact I was in the very close vicinity today...

[Nick Harbud]

Seems like a silly place to build a chapel or a holy well for that matter.

 

[Imperial Dave]

Plenty of water....

[Nick Harbud]

One might say a superfluity...

[Imperial Dave]

It's an interesting area in all seriousness and we are awash with saints too...

[Keraunos]

Splendid name - Treacle Island - and an intriguing idea that it was the closest thing you could get to a desert island near Wales! 

[Nick Harbud]

They were real hardcore those medieval Welsh saints....

 

[Imperial Dave]

Just look at Bedwin sands...

[Erpingham]

Welsh saints seem to have liked Bristol Channel islands.  St Gildas (yes, that Gildas) lived on Steep Holm and St Caradoc on Flat Holm it is said.  I wonder if there was a hierarchy, with less famous saints like Tecla and Triog only managing to get little islands?

[Imperial Dave]

Denny Island is my favourite

[Nick Harbud]

Welsh saints seem to have liked Bristol Channel islands.  St Gildas (yes, that Gildas) lived on Steep Holm and St Caradoc on Flat Holm it is said.  I wonder if there was a hierarchy, with less famous saints like Tecla and Triog only managing to get little islands?

Ah, yes.  One can just imagine St. Twrogg gazing out over the Bristol Channel and considering the possibilities...

"Flat Holm?  No, Caradoc already has that one.  Steep Holm?  Gildas got there first.  Damn!  We'll just have to use that unpromising pile of rocks over there..."