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PENRHOS, or Penrose, is a parish, 3 miles north from Raglan station on the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool line of the Great Western railway, 9 west from Monmouth and 10 south-east from Abergavenny, in the Southern division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Raglan, union and county court district of Monmouth, rural deanery of Raglan, archdeaconry .of Monmouth and diocese of Llandaff.
The church of St. Cadoc is an ancient building, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells ; some repairs were effected in 1848 and in 1878 the church vas enlarged at a cost of �1,140: there are 150 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1721 ; marriages and burials, 1718. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value �154, including 44 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Llandaff, and held since 1865 by the Rev. William Feetham M.A. of St. John's College, Oxford. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. Here is a camp, probably British, and a fortification, called Penrose Castle, consisting of a tumulus of considerable height, with two moats around it. In the year 1251, 35th King Henry III, a patent appointed "John de Monmouth keeper of the Castle of Penrose, in Wales"; and in the year following another patent pardoned "William de Cantalupe, Lord of Abergavenny, for having demolished the Castle of Penrose, belonging to John de Monmouth"; this in all probability is the castle referred to in these patents. The Marquess of Abergavenny K.G. is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are Sir Henry Mather-Jackson, bart., of Llantillio Court, Sir Arthur John Fludyer, bart., of Ayston Hall. Rutland, Godfrey Seys esq., Col. Ivor John Caradoc Herbert C.B., C.M.G. of Llanarth Court, Col. Joseph Alfred Bradney, of Talcoed Court, Llanviliangel-Ystern-Llewern and Mr. Herbert James. The soil is clay; subsoil, marl. The chief crops are. wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 2,690 acres; rateable value, �2,261; the population in 1891 was 276. Parish Clerk, John Seaborne. Post Office. - Reuben Edmunds, sub-postmaster. Letters from Newport arrive at 10.25 a.m. mon., wed. & fri. & 10.55 a.m. tues. thurs. & sat.; dispatched 4.30 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Llantillio Crossenny, 2 miles distant National School (mixed), built in 1866, for 60 children; average attendance, 18; Miss Mary Vowles, mistress. (Marked thus * receive their letters through Abergavenny)
Feetham Rev. William M.A. (vicar),Vicarage |