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

Church of St Cybi

WRENN ID
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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 Cybi is a 19th-century single-cell structure, built of rubble stonework with a graded slate roof and coped gable ends. A 19th-century open gabled porch, with thick copings topped with a floriated cross, faces South. A tall bellcote stands at the west end, and a 19th-century ashlar chimney stack rises from the vestry. Windows are small, with square heads and cusped tracery, dating to the 19th century, with a three-light, panel-tracery Perpendicular window at the east end; the mullions of this window have been renewed. A rectangular blocked opening is located at the junction of the nave and chancel on the north side. The west door is set within a roughly formed rubble arch with a horizontal dripstone.

The churchyard contains the grave of Daffy Owen (Dew Wen o Elfin), a local poet and one of the bards of the area who flourished in the early 19th century.

The simple interior consists of a single cell and a nave with six roof bays. Two late medieval arch-braced trusses are located at the east end; the upper parts of these were originally cusped, while the remaining five trusses are likely from the 19th-century restoration. Exposed rafters are visible. The walls are plastered and some wall paintings, now not visible, have been recorded. Red and black quarry tiles cover the exposed floor areas, and the east end is raised by one step.

Church furnishings include a 19th-century pine pulpit, octagonal in shape with three approach steps; a 19th-century limestone font, remounted; a communion rail of paired columns and a simple rail; an 18th or early 19th-century altar, which is a table with stretchers; and a free-standing, elaborately carved aumbrey cupboard on a bracketed stand. The pews are 19th-century pine.

Monuments on the north wall, from west to east, include an oak, classical aedicule carved and painted by Jonah Jones, with an eagle on a wreath over a pediment, dedicated to John Clough Williams-Ellis (Sion Pentyrch) of Glasfryn and Brondanw. This monument was likely designed by his architect son, Clough Williams-Ellis, and commemorates his death in 1913. A white marble tablet, by Seddon of Liverpool, is dedicated to John Lloyd of Trallwyn, who died in 1855. On the south wall are a monument depicting an alabaster aedicule with a wreath arch on fluted pilasters, dedicated to Roger Williams-Ellis, who died in Krugersdorp at the age of 19, and a white marble corniced tablet dedicated to Owen Rowland of Ynys-Legi and his wife, who died in 1927. Other features include a poor box set into a rear pew, and an octagonal, hollowed-out post with a hinged lid, likely dating to the 17th century.

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