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Pyle's 'upside down' church
According to legend, St James' Church in Pyle, near Bridgend, is 'upside down' because it used stones from the earlier church in Kenfig, on a site engulfed in wind-blown sand; smaller stones from the upper parts of the old church were removed first ...
and formed the lower parts of St James' Church, followed by larger ones. There followed a dispute over which of the two successors to the earlier building should be the parish church - settled after the bishop called a special meeting in 1485. To discover the remarkable history of the church in Pyle - including the story of the slave-trader buried in the churchyard - scan the HistoryPoints QR codes on the noticeboard by the churchyard entrance. Or click here