Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1971. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- dark-lead-pine
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1971
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Parish church, rubble stone with purple slate single roof. W end coped gable with bellcote. Stonework is mostly coursed and of 1840, as on windowless W end. Bellcote is gabled with rectangular single bell-opening, bell dated 1894, bell-pull to outside. Plain pointed windows with stone voussoirs and wooden Y-tracery, 2-light glazing. 2 windows each side, one larger at E end (tracery apparently of cement). Ledged door to N side right, with cambered head, dated 1840. Traces of blocked slit windows in chancel N and S.
Simple plastered walls and 5 whitewashed pine roof trusses. These roof trusses are of collar type with diagonal bracing below and wishbone struts above collars, one dated 1840. Fittings of the early C19 all in painted grained pine. NE end complete group of 2 box-pews and three-decker pulpit, the pulpit comprising a pew-type enclosure in front of the pulpit itself and a panelled cupboard-cum-reading desk. The pulpit, to N of and slightly higher than desk, is octagonal (the diagonal faces shorter) and has single candle-holder and added bookrest. Above, to similar octagonal shape, is a suspended sounding board with moulded cornice and underside decorated with 8-ray sun. SE corner has single box pew in angle, higher than 2 more to W. Rest of the church is furnished each side with 8 early C19 open-back pews fixed to rails along walls and simple curved bench-ends to aisle. Benches along W wall and S side facing font. Floor of quarry tiles. At SW end a rough circular medieval font bowl set into a roughly square whitewashed rendered pier. By the base is whitewashed lower half of a medieval font pedestal.
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