Catholic Church of St Tudwal including attached presbytery is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 March 2025. Church, presbytery.

Catholic Church of St Tudwal including attached presbytery

WRENN ID
far-cornice-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 March 2025
Type
Church, presbytery
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Catholic Church of St Tudwal, including the attached presbytery, is designed in the Early English Gothic Revival style. It is constructed from randomly coursed Minffordd granite, accented with yellow Cefn sandstone dressings, and features a slate roof. Each gable is adorned with crosses. The windows are a combination of paired and single lancets, some squared and others with curvilinear tracery. The southwest tower includes angle buttresses, paired louvred lancet bell-openings, a saddleback roof, and a canopied octagonal niche at the top that houses a statue of Our Lady. The entrance is located at the base of the tower, and the sanctuary is illuminated by gabled pseudo-transepts.

To the right of the church is the presbytery, a three-storey, two-bay structure with a gabled front, cross windows, and an oriel window in the left bay. The presbytery windows have been replaced with uPVC in the original openings.

Inside the church, a porch leads to a narthex that features a gated baptistry in the center of the west wall and a pitch-pine glazed screen separating it from the nave. Above, there is a gallery that houses an organ and provides access to the belfry. The timber hammer beam roof includes a cruciform king post and collar trusses framed by angle struts, with other sections decorated with tracery. The north side contains a confessional and sacristy, with access from the sacristy into the presbytery.

The church boasts a remarkable collection of oak furnishings crafted by Ferdinand Stuflesser of Austria. The altar features a front panel relief of the Last Supper, which is now detached from the reredos. Above the Benediction alcove and tabernacle is a tall openwork spire, accompanied by side reliefs depicting the Nativity and the Ascension, as well as shorter side spires. Throughout the interior, wainscoting displays blind tracery and crenelations, with similar details on the pew ends and frontals. In the sanctuary, canopied plinths support painted statues of St Thérèse of Lisieux, St Peter, St Joseph, and a guardian angel. Statues of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate are positioned on plinths with pinnacled canopies on either side of the sanctuary. The Stations of the Cross are represented by polychrome low-relief panels set in ornate gothic frames.

The interior of the presbytery has been largely modernized but retains its original layout.

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