St David's Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 August 1988. A Victorian Church. 4 related planning applications.
St David's Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- graven-chancel-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1988
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- St David's Parish Church, Glanadda, Bangor, LL57 4LP
- OS grid reference
- SH 573 713
- Coordinates
- 53.21973, -4.13864
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
St David's Parish Church is a 19th-century building featuring a three-bay nave, a transept, and a lower two-bay chancel with a lean-to south vestry and a tall extension to the north. The southwest tower has four stages and includes an inner porch that connects it to the church. The exterior is constructed from snecked bull-nosed rubble with tooled red sandstone dressings, which include quoins, cill bands, hoodmoulds, and gable parapets. The church is supported by stepped buttresses and features crucifix finials and slate roofs. The nave has two-light windows with cinquefoil heads, while the transepts have three-light stepped lancet windows with decorative bosses. The vestry and the south side of the chancel have lancet windows.
The elaborate east end showcases Christ in mandorla above a full-width grouping of lancets, which are supported by marble shafts and annulettes, with linked hoodmoulds and carved stops. To the north, there is a three-storey gable-ended range that projects the width of the transept and features lancet windows, some of which are linked by continuous hoodmoulds. The west window has four lights and is stepped. The tower is topped with a crenellated parapet and pinnacles and previously had a low spire. It includes two-light louvred belfry openings, three grouped lancets below, and a stair tower on the east face. The entrance features a two-order pointed arch under a gabled canopy with Christ in mandorla, boarded double doors, and two commemorative tablets. There were plans for the porch to be extended eastwards into a south aisle.
Inside, the church has an imposing brick interior. The aisles of the nave feature false hammerbeam trusses that spring from moulded stone corbels. The chancel has a boarded roof and painted black colonettes at the east window. The church contains high-quality timberwork and Gothic furnishings, including a Last Supper reredos, a piscina, sedilia, and an octagonal pulpit from 1889 with high relief sculptures depicting New Testament scenes. There is a wrought iron choir screen dated 1936 and a First World War memorial screen between the chancel and the Lady Chapel, along with a bronzed figure of St David from the Vaynon estate. Church rooms are located below.
Local climate
St David's Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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