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. 2 related planning applications.

St David's Parish Church

WRENN ID
graven-chancel-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 August 1988
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Source
Cadw listing

Description

3-bay name, transept and lower 2-bay chancel with lean-to S vestry and tall extension to N; 4-stage SW tower with inner porch linking it to the church. Snecked bull nosed rubble with tooled red sandstone dressings including quoins, cill bands, hoodmoulds and gable parapets; stepped buttresses, crucifix finials and slate roofs. 2-light nave windows with cinquefoil head; 3-light stepped lancet windows to transepts with bosses; lancet windows to vestry and chancel S side. Elaborate E end comprising Christ in mandorla over full width grouped lancets below with marble shafts and annulettes, linked hoodmoulds and carved stops.

3-storey gable ended range to N projecting the width of the transept; lancet windows; some linked by continuous hoodmoulds. 4-light stepped W window. Tower has crenellated parapet with pinnacles; formerly had a low spire. 2-light louvred belfry openings, 3-grouped lancets below and stair tower to E face. 2-order pointed arch entrance under a gabled canopy with Christ in mandorla; boarded double doors and 2 commemorative tablets. The porch was to have been extended eastwards into a S aisle.

Imposing brick interior. Aisles nave with false hammerbeam trusses springing from moulded stone corbels. Boarded roof to chancel and painted black colonettes to E window. High quality timberwork and Gothic furnishings including Last Supper reredos; piscina, sedilia and octagonal pulpit (1889) with high relief sculpture of New Testament scenes. Wrought iron choir screen dated 1936 and 1st World War memorial screen between chancel and Lady Chapel. Bronzed figure of St David from Vaynon estate. Church rooms below.

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