St Peter's Church is the parish church: an ogival-headed priest's doorway in the chancel, and two windows with reticulated tracery are assigned to the fourteenth century, and a lancet in the west wall of the nave seems to be from the thirteenth, where a square tower with battlemented top was added later. The village once had a
Victorian schoolhouse (now demolished). The village, which has the full name of Llanwenarth Citra, sits in flattish grassy pastures between the
Blorenge mountain and the
Sugar Loaf Mountain, Wales. Some of these meadows have been designated a
Site of Special Scientific Interest(SSSI).
Llanwenarth House was built in the 16th century and is operated as a hotel, located to the west of nearby
Govilon. The busy
A40 Abergavenny to
Brecon road passes along the valley side above the flood plain of the River Usk, and
Nevill Hall Hospital is situated close by on the outskirts of Abergavenny town. The annual Abergavenny and Border Counties
Show, similar to
Monmouth Show, used to be held on the fields close to the church until the 1990s. An old
cable ferry (similar to
Hampton Loade Ferry on the
River Severn) used to be used in Victorian times to cross the
River Usk from a field on the Abergavenny/Llanwenarth side to the
Govilon side of the river, where the bank was referred to as 'Llanwenarth Ultra.' ==References==