Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 May 1970. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- strange-flue-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Constituency
- Ynys Môn MP: Llinos Medi (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1970
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Bodewryd, Amlwch, Mechell
- OS grid reference
- SH 400 905
- Coordinates
- 53.38784, -4.40706
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a simple rural church with a continuous nave and chancel, and an added north porch. It is constructed of local rubble masonry on boulder foundations, heavily mortared, with freestone dressings. The roof is modern slate with slate coping and ridge, and there is a west gable bellcote. The nave consists of two bays, each featuring a round-headed window, along with a similarly styled west window that has a projecting stone above it. The rectangular east window, dating from the 16th century, has three arched lights with a hoodmould above. The north porch includes a small rectangular leaded light in its north wall, with entry through a round-headed doorway in the east wall.
Entry to the church is through wide double doors from the north porch, each featuring diagonally set tongue and grooved panels. The nave and chancel are continuous, with a four-bay roof showcasing exposed timbers. Each bay is defined by queen post trusses with angled braces that extend down to shaped corbels. The windows contain small panes of coloured glass arranged in geometric and floral designs. To the right of the doorway, at the west end of the nave, are two fonts: one is a rectangular gritstone bowl, and the other is a highly ornate oval bowl made of alabaster. Both fonts are undated and not recorded in the RCAHMW Inventory; the rectangular font may be Medieval, while the alabaster font likely dates from the 19th-century restoration.
The sanctuary is raised by one step and features a moulded rail over a round-arched frieze supported by shaped balusters. On the south wall of the chancel is a brass tablet that records bequests to the church by Queen Anne's Bounty and Robert Wynn, Rector of Llantrisant, from 1720 and 1727. There is also a brass memorial tablet dedicated to Edward Wyn, Rector of Llantrisant and Llanddyfnan, who died in 1671, along with his wife Margaret and their five children: John (1707), Ann, Elen (died 1703), Catherine (died 1679), and Edward, LLD, Chancellor of Hereford (1707). The church also contains two early to mid-18th century gravestones, including that of Edward Wynn of Bodewryd, Chancellor of Hereford, who died in 1755. The bell, according to RCAHMW, features vine scroll ornamentation and is dated 1747.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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