on the route to the Church of St. Jerome and is also in the Early English style, restored in the 19th century. Baptist chapel The Baptist chapel, situated at the south west end of the village, was built in 1840 on land given by Cradock Gwynne Watkins of the village. The building was financed by the local Baptists who, at that time, attended "Peniel", an older (now ruined) chapel on Golden Hill of which the chapel at Llangwm was a branch. The exterior is cement rendered with a slate roof. There are three windows, with tracery on each side wall. A date-stone for 1840 is set above a tall pointed door entrance. The interior has a gallery at the entrance end and late-19th-century pews. The walls are finished in plain two-tone and the pulpit has a plain balustraded rail around. There is seating for approximately 100 persons. The chapel, which is mentioned in Sir Joseph Bradney's A History of Monmouthshire (1923), was designated a Grade II listed building on 12 October 2000. Gaer Fawr hill fort The Iron Age hill fort at Gaer Fawr (meaning in Welsh, "great fort"), about south-east of Llangwm Uchaf, is one of the largest hill forts in Monmouthshire, and commands wide views over the Vale of Usk to the west, north and east. Allt-y-Bela Allt-y-Bela is a mid-15th century house in Llangwm Uchaf. It is a Grade II* listed building. Allt-y-Bela was built as a hall house in the mid-15th century, originally as a traditional, single-storey, cruck-frame building with wooden mullions and leaded lights. About a century later a first floor was added with dormer windows and chimneys. In 1599 the wealthy Midlands wool merchant Roger Edwards, the founder of Usk Grammar School, added a three-storey Renaissance tower. Visiting in the late 1940s, when the owner was farmer Mr Moseley, the local writer and historian Fred Hando noted the builder's inscription mark – 1599, E.R. R.E – and was also shown the central spiral staircase, built around a massive single tree-trunk newel post. Curiously the stair treads showed holes through which bell-ropes would once have passed and there was a tiny bellcote, with a bellframe, at the very top of the tower. The bell had reputedly been moved to the nearby church of St David's Church, Llangeview. The Edwards family was part of an extreme religious sect and it has been suggested that the bell