Saint Cadoc’s Church stands in the centre of Caerleon next to the Roman Museum. As you drive past the museum you would see the Lych Gate built as a memorial to those who died in the Great War. You might miss the church because it is set back and surrounded by trees. It is in fact a fine parish church built on the site of the former Roman Principia or headquarters where the Roman legionary standards were kept. By the time of St. Cadoc in the sixth century, the Christian Cross had supplanted the Roman standards. The present church has work dating from the Norman period at the base of the Tower, up to 1935 when the Lady Chapel was built. The shape and structure of the present church is the result of the Victorian rebuilding of the large and spacious fifteenth century church which reflected the prosperity of the port of Caerleon at that time.

A. J. Edwards