Church of St Garmon is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 May 1968. Church.
Church of St Garmon
- WRENN ID
- gentle-gargoyle-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1968
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Parish church. Romanesque style. Regularly coursed and dressed rubblestone blocks with ashlar dressings; slate roofs with coped verges and kneelers to nave, conical to semi-circular sanctuary. Nave in 3 bays with 2 stepped buttresses to north and south walls and diagonal buttresses to corners. 2-light round-arched cast-iron latticed windows with plain chamfered shafts and capitals in round-headed openings linked by continuous impost banding. West end has central round-headed doorway with date "1842" to top and recessed boarded door; narrow round-headed windows to either side linked by continuous impost band. String course above with slightly projecting break to centre of the wall, housing a 2-light window like those to north and south walls, continues up to form gabled bellcote with round-headed opening; this has extrados, imposts and a bell. Semi-circular apsidal sanctuary has 3 small round-headed windows linked by continuous cill and impost bands; red stained glass to outer quarries.
Simple interior has collar and tie beam roof structure with boarding to the rafters; half-height screen forms small internal lobby at west end; slate floor. Plain C19 fittings include rail to raised sanctuary, pulpit, reading desk and benches. C17 communion table with C20 top; font with carved lettering and date "CAPEL. SANT. GARMON. BETWS. 1614" also from old church has a small 4-leaved flower carved between "CAPEL" and the date. C18 wall tablets and a brass on north wall to John Rowlands (d.1703).
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