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

Church of St Tudwen

WRENN ID
woven-plinth-solstice
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 October 1971
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

T-plan vernacular church with low walls and shallow pitched roofs. Large random granite boulders and slate gabled roofs with plain ridges and gabled W bellcote. W end oak door in arched doorway with stone voussoirs. Tall rubble single bellcote with coped gable. Nave has one C20 window in square opening each side. Transepts are long; S transept windowless to W, has S 3-light flush stone-mullion window and E smaller 2-light. N transept has N timber 3-light window and E timber mullion window of 2 latticed lights. Centre E gable has timber flat-headed 3-light window, cusped.

W entrance has three large granite steps down to nave. The low walls are white painted plaster, and roof rafters are plastered between. Quarry-tiled floors. Thin C19 collar-truss roofs. N nave pews are C18 or early C19, bench type with plain boarding, sloped backs and curved ends. S nave pews are later C19 with panelled backs and rolled, flat tops and ends. Medieval octagonal gritstone font with round pedestal. Later C19 open fronted timber pulpit. The oak altar is raised on a platform with three steps. C19 timber altar rail has trefoiled arcading. S transept has curtained vestry with aumbry niche and shelf. N transept has aumbry niche in W wall, and C17 and C18 floor memorial stones. Sanctuary and transept windows have green leaded-lights with ecclesiastical symbols in red stained glass roundels, shields also in E window.

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