The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Clydog (medieval)
Parish church
Clodock is a village in SW Hereforshire, a mile from the Monmouthshire border. It lies on the river Monnow, which flows directly behind the church, where there is a weir for providing water to power Clodock Mill, a restored and working water mill. Immediately to the W of the village rise the Black Mountains. Clodock consists of the church, a public house (the Cornewall Arms) and a few houses, but the road through the village continues N up the valley where it soon enters Longtown; a continuous settlement extending for another 1½ miles. This now shares Clodock church, as its own has been converted for residential use.
St Clydog’s is of red sandstone with an aisleless nave with a wooden W gallery, a chancel and a W tower. The nave has two small round-headed N lancets, and the chancel a single pointed N lancet. The chancel arch jambs are 12thc, although the arch itself is later – pointed and chamfered. The simple chalice-shaped font is also 12thc.