St David's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 April 1992. House.
St David's Church
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 April 1992
- Type
- House
- Address
- St David's Church, Barmouth
- OS grid reference
- SH 615 155
- Coordinates
- 52.71993, -4.05147
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
St David's Church is a cruciform building designed in a restrained Tudor style, constructed of ashlar with slate roofs. It features coped, parapeted gables with broad kneelers and off-set finials, along with diagonal buttresses. The west end has a gabled bell-cote with an eroded slate dedication plaque below it. The church has deep hoodmoulds over Tudor-arched windows with cusped tracery, consisting of two lights on the nave sides and three lights at the east end and transepts. There are blind lancets with hoodmoulds at the gable apexes. A flat-topped gabled porch at the west entrance has a Tudor-arched entrance with boarded doors and a Gothic fanlight. There is another entrance to the north transept beneath a window, featuring a recessed boarded door. A lean-to vestry is located to the north, positioned between the chancel and the north transept, while a simpler lean-to is found on the east side of the south transept. The east end has a rubble plinth.
Inside, there are chamfered transverse beams supporting coved ceilings, with similar beams at the crossing. The east window contains good stained glass by Alexander Gibbs of London, dated August 23, 1873. The church features a Gothic octagonal wooden pulpit and a stone font with marble columns, which has been re-set in the north transept. The contemporary choir stalls have been relocated to the south transept, and there is a panelled and boarded vestry door.
Local climate
St David's Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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