Church of St Celynin is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 June 2005. Church.
Church of St Celynin
- WRENN ID
- late-barrel-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 June 2005
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Celynin is a parish church featuring a nave and chancel that share a single roof. It is designed in the simple lancet style typical of the early 19th century, which was popular before the ecclesiological revival of the 1840s. The church is constructed of rubble stone and has a slate roof with coped gables. An added freestone bellcote at the west end houses a single bell and is flanked by three stepped pointed windows that illuminate the gallery.
The west porch, which has vestry rooms set back on either side with splayed corners, is topped with coped parapets that conceal the roofs. The entrance features pointed double doors, while the vestry rooms have small pointed windows. The north and south walls of the main church each have three pointed windows. On the south side, there is an added lean-to boiler room that is set back from the west end. The late 19th-century east window is a three-light Perpendicular style window with a hood mould. Above this window is a diamond tablet that commemorates the church's construction in 1842.
Inside, from the porch, there are segmental-headed panelled doors leading to the nave, and to the left, a simple dog-leg stairway leads to the gallery. The six-bay roof features collar-beam trusses with diagonal struts beneath the collars, and the west gallery has a panelled front. The Gothic panelled reredos in the sanctuary is from the 20th century.
The font, made of freestone in the Perpendicular style, dates to 1914 and has a stem of four clustered marble shafts with foliage capitals beneath the bowl. The octagonal bowl is adorned with relief ornament and features the inscription 'Suffer little children' around the rim. The church has simple pews with shaped ends, and the polygonal wooden pulpit, dated 1913, includes open cusped arches. The communion rail is supported by twisted iron uprights and scroll brackets leading to a moulded wooden rail.
The chancel windows, created by the same artist after 1915, depict scenes from the New Testament. In the east and south windows, Christ is shown with women, including Jairus's daughter and Mary, sister of Martha. The north window features an angel announcing the resurrection to Mary Magdalene and Mary, mother of James.
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