Church of St Caian is a Grade II* listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 May 1970. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Caian
- WRENN ID
- tangled-gutter-river
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1970
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Caian, Tregaian, Llanddyfnan
- OS grid reference
- SH 451 797
- Coordinates
- 53.29164, -4.32496
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Caian is a simple rural church constructed from rubble masonry, topped with a slate roof that features a west gable bellcote with a pointed opening. The nave and chancel are not structurally divided. The east window, dating from the late 14th century, consists of one ogee light with simple tracery set within a pointed arch frame that has a moulded label. The main entrance is a south doorway from the 15th century, which has casement moulded jambs and a two-centred head within a square frame, also featuring a moulded label and spandrels adorned with trefoils. The south wall includes two 17th-century windows with paired square-headed lights and chamfered jambs. The north doorway, of uncertain date, has been blocked in the late 19th century, while a single 17th-century north window has two rectangular lights with hollow chamfered jambs and a moulded label. A small west window, either from the 17th or 18th century, is a square-headed light with chamfered jambs.
Inside, the church has an exposed seven-bay roof supported by repaired 16th or 17th-century arch-braced collared trusses and paired purlins with angle braces. The chancel is raised by a single step and features a moulded rail on shaped balusters, with a panelled reredos beneath a moulded rail. The fittings are from the 19th century, including pews with lamb's tongue chamfered ends and a pulpit that incorporates deeply recessed reset 17th-century panelling. The font, dating from the 12th century, is a circular tub-shaped bowl with a central band of irregular chevrons.
The east window displays a depiction of Christ crowning a knight, accompanied by the inscription: "Well done thy good and faithful servant / Take unto you the whole armour of God." On either side of the window are marble memorial tablets: to the left, one commemorates Thomas Edward John Lloyd CBDL, PTG, JP who died in 1937, and his wife Rosamund Anna who died in 1948; to the right, another honors Robert Lloyd Esq TG who died in 1846, and his daughter Margaret who died in 1858.
On the north wall of the nave, there is a slate tablet dedicated to Thomas Maximillian who died in 1745, along with other late 19th and early 20th-century memorials for members of the Lloyd family of Plas Tregayan. Additional 20th-century Lloyd memorials can be found on the south wall of the nave, alongside a bronze memorial for John Prydherch who died in 1724 and his wife Anne who died in 1752.
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