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

Church of St Cwyfan

WRENN ID
outer-shingle-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 October 1971
Type
Townhouse
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Parish church, granite rubble stone with ashlar dressings, slate roofs, coped shouldered gables and W bellcote. Nave, chancel, N vestry and S porch. Decorated Gothic style. Three-bay nave, two-bay chancel with two-step buttresses each bay, clasping at E angles, diagonal at W end. Raised ashlar plinth. Windows are 2-light with quatrefoil over, those in chancel with hoodmoulds, W end has a pair of similar windows and E end has big 3-light window with quatrefoil and trefoils in heads of the lights and hoodmould over. W end ashlar bellcote has 2 bells in cusped pointed openings, carved incised cross above. Porch has pointed arch, pointed door within. N vestry has truncated N stack, E shouldered-headed doorway and N 3-light window, cusped under segmental pointed hoodmould.

Plastered whitewashed walls with exposed ashlar dressings. Deep arch-braced collar trusses to nave with wishbone struts over collars. Elaborated in chancel with straight-braced collar rafters. Moulded ashlar pointed chancel arch on moulded corbels. Moulded chancel N low segmental pointed arch to Vestry, blocked by organ. Hoodmould to E window. Chancel floor paved in black and white.

Timber fittings by Scott include pitch pine pews, stalls, reading-desk, rails, and panelled pulpit. Ashlar font by Scott, octagonal with inset carved panels and quatrefoil shaft. Later C19 organ in simple Gothic case.

Memorials: Brass plaque to Laura Wynne d1851, neo Jacobean plaque to Major J S Wynne Finch d1906. Stained glass: chancel E window, 3-light of Resurrection by Clayton & Bell 1906, to C A Wynne Finch of Voelas and Cefn Amwlch. Three chancel side 2-light windows of the same date by same firm. In the vestry, Seating-plan by G G Scott.

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