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Tremeirchion

This rambling hillside village contains several buildings of interest. The 14th-century Parish Church of Corpus Christi is the only church in Britain with that dedication, which means body of Christ. It is a simple building with combined nave and chancel, but houses an interesting 14th-century canopied tomb containing the effigy of a vested priest while, in the chancel, a tablet commemorates Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741–1821), a writer who is better known as Dr Johnson’s friend Mrs Thrale. She was the wife of Henry Thrale, a Southwark brewer who died in 1781. While married to him, she had fallen in love with an Italian music master called Gabriel Piozzi who had been hired to give music lessons to her daughter. In 1784, she married Gabriel, a union that was not approved of by her family or friends, including Johnson and Boswell.

She had inherited the family house in Tremeirchion where she had grown up but, which was now dilapidated. The couple built a new hilltop house, Brynbella, and lived there happily until Piozzi’s death. The house still stands and is lived in by a descendant of Mrs Piozzi but is not open to the public.

In 1567, Sir Richard Clough, a wealthy merchant, built a house, Bachegraig, near the village. Though the house is now demolished Bachegraig Gatehouse still stands. Its unusual architectural style so shocked the local inhabitants that they thought the devil must have been the architect and had also supplied the bricks. The local story has it that the devil baked the bricks in the fires of hell; to this day, a nearby stream is known as Nant y Cythraul or the Devil’s Brook.