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
Description
Church in Early English Gothic Revival style. Randomly coursed Minffordd granite with yellow Cefn sandstone dressings. Slate roof. Crosses to each gable. Windows a mix of paired and single lancets, squared and with curvilinear tracery. SW tower with angle buttresses, paired louvred lancet bell-openings, saddleback roof and canopied octagonal niche at the top with a statue of Our Lady. Entrance at base of tower. Sanctuary lit by gabled pseudo-transepts. Presbytery to right, 3-storey 2 -bay with gabled front, cross windows and oriel in left hand bay. Presbytery windows have been replaced in uPVC in original openings.
Porch leads to narthex with gated baptistry in centre of west wall and pitch-pine glazed screen to nave. Gallery above with organ and access to belfry. Timber hammer beam roof with cruciform king post and collar trusses framed by angle struts; other sections with traceried decoration. Confessional and sacristy to north side with access through sacristy into presbytery. The church retains a fine collection of oak furnishings by Ferdinand Stuflesser of Austria. Altar with front panel relief of the Last Supper is now detached from the reredos, with tall openwork spire over Benediction alcove and tabernacle, side reliefs of the Nativity and the Ascension and shorter side spires. Wainscoting with blind tracery and crenelations throughout the interior with similar detail on pew ends and frontals. In the sanctuary canopied plinths carry painted statues of St Thérèse of Lisieux, St Peter, St Joseph, and a guardian angel. Statues of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate on plinths with pinnacled canopies to either side of the sanctuary. Stations of the Cross: polychrome low-relief panels in ornate gothic frames.
Presbytery interior largely modernised though retaining original layout.
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