Church of St George is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 July 1999. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St George

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 July 1999
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Snecked squared Trefor granite with limestone and courses of red and blue bricks, flush as hood bands over the windows. Blue slate roof patterned with green slates and a trefoiled blue ridge tiles. Coped gables. It consists of a nave, W porch, and a short 3-sided apsidal chancel, and carries a slender SE tower. Vestry at right angles on the N side. Five lancet windows to the nave, all with wide external splays, and a corbelled outstepping eaves course, and patterned leaded glazing. The tower is rectangular in plan, with square buttresses rising to a corbel table at the base of the bell stage, with lancet openings with brick surrounds. Crenellated parapet.

The wide nave has an open roof of 5 bays defined by double collar trusses, the collars supporting 3 trefoiled infill panels and king posts. Painted stone supporting wall corbels. The walls are plastered, with a boarded dado. Four steps rise to the presbytery beneath a stone chancel arch. The chancel is of 2 bays with an apsidal end, all quarry tiled, and it has a similar open roof. Open aumbrey recesses each side. The chancel windows have C19 glass. High set W window.

Fittings: altar table on stone legs, and a C19 arcaded communion rail. The pulpit is of pine, octagonal and accessed from the chancel. Font of polished granite, dated 1901, a circular bowl with rounded lip, set on a stem and base. Two banks of pine pews.

Monuments: (a) brasses to the Farren family, benefactors of the church, and (b) a black marble tablet to Tommy Owen, d.1971.

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