Church of St Twrog is a Grade II* listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 April 1971. House.

Church of St Twrog

WRENN ID
tenth-belfry-peregrine
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Constituency
Ynys Môn MP: Llinos Medi (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 April 1971
Type
House
Address
Church of St Twrog, Bodwrog, Bodffordd
OS grid reference
SH 400 776
Coordinates
53.27157, -4.40048
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Twrog is a simple rural Medieval church, with the nave and chancel structurally undivided. It is constructed from rubble masonry, featuring weathered limestone dressings. The roof is made of large thin slates, with stone copings and a dressed stone bellcote at the west end. The main entrance is located at the west end of the south wall, showcasing a primary doorway with a segmental head set within a square-headed architrave. This doorway has moulded jambs and weathered, decorated spandrels; to the right is the arm of Llywarch ap Bran, while the left side is defaced, possibly depicting a rose. Above the doorway, there is a stone carved with a bull's head.

The openings on the north wall of the nave mirror those on the south. A 15th-century north doorway has been converted into a window, featuring a 4-centred head within a square architrave, with moulded jambs and sunk spandrels that display three bull's heads on the left, representing the Bulkeley family of Baron Hill, Beaumaris, and a leaf design on the right. The central windows from the 17th or 18th century consist of paired rectangular lights. The 15th-century windows at the east end of the north and south walls of the nave have paired cinquefoil-headed lights set in square architraves with moulded jambs. The primary east window features three ogee-headed lights with vertical cusped tracery, set within a 4-centred head, complete with casement-moulded jambs and splays.

Inside, the church has a five-bay 19th-century roof with exposed collared trusses and angled braces. The sanctuary is raised by a single step and has a simple rail supported by shaped balusters. On either side of the sanctuary are pulpits or reading desks, which have recessed panelled sides, matching the design of the box pews in the nave. On the south wall of the nave, there are two 18th-century slate memorial tablets: one commemorates Hugh Hughes of Llandrygarn who died in 1748, his son William who died in 1751, Hugh, son of John Hughes and his wife Sidney who died in 1766, Gwen, wife of William Hughes who died in 1794, Sidney Hughes who died in 1810, and John Hughes who died in 1821; the other is for William Lloyd of Bwlch-y-fen who died in 1772.

Local climate

Church of St Twrog 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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