CHURCH OPEN AFTERNOON

St. Peter’s Church is the oldest building in Penarth and this charming place is holding an open afternoon to come and tour it.

Sunday 15th September 12.00PM until 5.00PM

Free entry, please come along to see and experience the lovely, tiny church.

CHRIS RILEY TALK

In addition, local historian Chris Riley will be talking at 2.30PM on the church and old Cogan.

TICKETS SOLD OUT!

(Unfortunately we cannot take walk-ins due to limited space at venue)

ABOUT THE LOCATION

See https://stpeterschurcholdcogan.org.uk/* for more details about the location.

ABOUT THE TALK

Cogan - the land, the people, the church through 800 years

For centuries almost no-one lived in Cogan, and nothing happened there.  True?  There’s an old church, still there, just, but little else.   Then suddenly a new Cogan turned up a mile away.  How did that happen?

Cogan’s history is full of puzzles. It was rich, then poor.  After the Norman invasion, it became a manor, with a castle, a village and a mill – what happened to them?  Its houses disappeared, its church fell into ruin. What happened to Little Cogan and where was Coganfawr?

The church now has some celebrated features – its herringbone masonry, the graves of the Herbert family, a stylish reredos, a gravestone carved by Iolo Morganwg – yet perhaps none of these is perhaps quite what it seems. Wreckers, murder, a ghost, a wedding on the church roof, a valuable Tudor dairy with 32 cattle and even an international port.  Perhaps more happened in Cogan than we realise.