Aberdaron New Church

Parish church, now chapel. Large squared rough granite blocks with minimal dressings in grey stone. Broad low-pitched slate roof and coped gables on thin corbels. Neo-Romanesque, 6-window nave, NE vestry and minimal chancel. Twin towered W front. Broad W end with outer square buttresses, raised plinth and twin square towers, stair-towers to a former gallery, flanking a broad neo-Romanesque porch. Porch has coped corbelled gable and big round arched entry with chamfered piers and heavily rusticated arch, the arch blocks alternately chamfered. Stone slab steps and stone paving within, gallery stairs each side and inner doorway with double ledged doors with scrolled iron hinges. Towers have narrow loops lighting stair, one on outer face, one to front set higher, chamfered jambs and arched heads. Tower tops are more Italianate than Romanesque, slightly inset on chamfered plinth, with round-arch opening to each face and slate pyramid caps on corbels. Main gable has a blocked recessed dressed-stone 2-light window, arched heads and over-arch with stone voussoirs. 6-window sides have long arched leaded windows with chamfered jambs and flat buttresses between. NE vestry has arched W door and arched N window. Chancel is short, inset with lower roof and similar gable detail, 2-light window similar to that in W gable.

Interior unaltered save for loss of a W gallery. Broad span roof of 5 trusses with queen-post trusses braced from wall-posts. Plain 2-chamfer segmental-pointed chancel arch, plastered. Date plaque over arched NE vestry door. The most interesting feature is the completeness of the surviving fittings in grey-painted timber. Turned-column altar rails. Panelled square pulpit to right of chancel arch, with far projecting moulded cornice, and timber steps up with bulbous newel. Reading desk left of chancel arch, Gothic, 5-sided with cusped open panels and moulded cornice/book rest. Box pews at the front of the church, open benches behind, all with unusual pierced finials to bench-ends, like pointed shovels. Benches have open backs, pews are in 2 blocks each divided such that there are 3 rows of inward facing pews looking over 5 or 6 E facing pews. Panelled in long panels, panelled doors with roll mouldings. S block has quadrant curve taken out at NE angle to allow for pulpit. Quarry-tiled floor. At back of church a small wooden octagonal font on octagonal stem, presumably designed to have a bowl inserted.