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

Church of St Cwyfan

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

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Description

The Church of St Cwyfan is a parish church built from granite rubble stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. It features coped shouldered gables and a west bellcote. The church is designed in the Decorated Gothic style and consists of a three-bay nave, a two-bay chancel with two-step buttresses in each bay, clasping at the eastern angles and diagonal at the western end. It has a raised ashlar plinth. The windows are 2-light with a quatrefoil above, with those in the chancel having hoodmoulds. The west end has a pair of similar windows, while the east end features a large 3-light window with a quatrefoil and trefoils in the heads of the lights, also with a hoodmould above. The ashlar bellcote at the west end houses two bells in cusped pointed openings, with a carved incised cross above. The porch has a pointed arch and a pointed door. The north vestry includes a truncated north stack, an east shouldered-headed doorway, and a north 3-light window with a cusped under a segmental pointed hoodmould.

Inside, the walls are plastered and whitewashed, with exposed ashlar dressings. The nave has deep arch-braced collar trusses with wishbone struts over the collars, while the chancel features straight-braced collar rafters. There is a moulded ashlar pointed chancel arch on moulded corbels, and a moulded low segmental pointed arch leading to the vestry, which is blocked by an organ. The east window has a hoodmould, and the chancel floor is paved in black and white.

Timber fittings designed by Scott include pitch pine pews, stalls, a reading desk, rails, and a panelled pulpit. The ashlar font, also by Scott, is octagonal with inset carved panels and a quatrefoil shaft. There is a later 19th-century organ in a simple Gothic case.

Memorials in the church include a brass plaque for Laura Wynne who died in 1851 and a neo-Jacobean plaque for Major J S Wynne Finch who died in 1906. The stained glass in the chancel east window is a 3-light depiction of the Resurrection by Clayton & Bell from 1906, dedicated to C A Wynne Finch of Voelas and Cefn Amwlch, along with three 2-light windows on the chancel sides of the same date by the same firm. In the vestry, there is a seating plan by G G Scott.

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