Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1971. Cathedral.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
dark-lead-pine
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 October 1971
Type
Cathedral
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a parish church constructed from rubble stone and topped with a single purple slate roof. The west end features a coped gable with a bellcote. Most of the stonework is coursed and dates from 1840, including the windowless west end. The bellcote is gabled and has a rectangular single bell-opening, with the bell dated 1894 and a bell-pull on the outside. The church has plain pointed windows with stone voussoirs and wooden Y-tracery, featuring 2-light glazing. There are two windows on each side, with a larger one at the east end, where the tracery appears to be made of cement. A ledged door on the north side, positioned to the right, has a cambered head and is also dated 1840. Traces of blocked slit windows can be seen in the north and south sides of the chancel.

Inside, the walls are simply plastered, and there are five whitewashed pine roof trusses. These trusses are of the collar type, featuring diagonal bracing below and wishbone struts above the collars, with one truss dated 1840. The fittings, all in painted grained pine from the early 19th century, include a complete group of two box-pews and a three-decker pulpit at the northeast end. The pulpit consists of a pew-type enclosure in front and a panelled cupboard-cum-reading desk. The pulpit is octagonal, slightly higher than the desk, and has a single candle-holder and an added bookrest. Above it is a suspended sounding board, also octagonal, with a moulded cornice and an underside decorated with an eight-ray sun. In the southeast corner, there is a single box pew that is higher than the two additional box pews to the west. The rest of the church is furnished with eight early 19th-century open-back pews fixed to rails along the walls, and there are simple curved bench-ends in the aisle. Benches are also placed along the west wall and the south side facing the font. The floor is made of quarry tiles. At the southwest end, there is a rough circular medieval font bowl set into a roughly square whitewashed rendered pier, with the lower half of a medieval font pedestal also whitewashed at the base.

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