Church of St Beuno is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1971. Church.
Church of St Beuno
- WRENN ID
- old-ember-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1971
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Beuno is a largely 19th-century building of rubble stone with a slate roof and gable coping. It comprises a squat west tower with a spire, a nave, and a chancel roofed separately. The tower has tiny vestigial buttresses at its base on either side and rises in three diminishing stages to the base of the belfry, each stage having battered sides with raking offsets, the middle stage being slightly taller. The octagonal belfry is in ashlar, rising from a square platform with half-pyramids at the corners, featuring four pointed arch openings to the bell chamber. A porch to the north of the nave has a steeply pitched gabled roof with a stone cross at its apex, along with gable coping, moulded kneelers, a pointed-arched doorway with sandstone voussoirs, and a rectangular datestone marked '1885' above the doorway.
The interior features a flagged floor and a ceiled roof with ashlar pieces to the sides, the nave having a one-light opening to the right and a big boarded door with ornate cast-iron strap hinges and a stirrup drop handle. The north elevation includes a porch and nave with two two-light trefoil-headed windows with two traceried trefoils and a quatrefoil above, a buttressed junction with the chancel, and a single trefoil-headed lancet window in the chancel itself. Both the nave and chancel roofs have gable coping with a stone cross above the ridge at the east end, the chancel roof being lower. The south elevation features a plain buttress at the east end of the nave and a two-light trefoil-headed window with a traceried multifoil, matching a window on the left (which is hidden by the vestry). The east end has a three-light trefoil-headed window with seven multifoil lights to tracery.
The nave roof is a five-bay structure with deep arch-braced collar trusses supported on stone corbels, featuring a simple V-strut above the collar, and rafters with ashlar pieces. The three-bay chancel roof is similar but with vertical posts between the arch-brace and collar. A big pointed Gothic chancel arch has an inner rib. The nave floor is boarded, and the chancel is laid with encaustic tile. The church contains panel-backed pews with shaped ends, a pine altar rail moulded with pointed arched decoration between turned balusters, and a raised pulpit with an octagonal wooden base and hexagonal drum, the panels simply decorated with blind tracery consisting of trefoil headed arches with quarter-round pillars. A 19th-century font has an octagonal bowl supported on a circular moulded shaft with a square, unmoulded base. Stained glass windows include one in the north nave by Jones and Willis depicting "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God," and one at the east end depicting a crucifixion scene in memory of A. Jones Williams of Gelliwig. A late 20th-century lean-to vestry is located to the west, featuring random rubble walls and three one-light rectangular windows with stone architraves.
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