Church of St Curig is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 January 1998. Church.
Church of St Curig
- WRENN ID
- tattered-arch-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1998
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Church in local dark rubble, bathstone dressings, slate roofs. West end has 2 round-arched windows and bell-cote corbelled out below gable. Gabled SW porch. Aisleless nave, round-arched windows grouped 2-2-1-2 separated by buttresses. Apsidal chancel with foiled windows under hoodmoulds; E end of chancel has bathstone niche with statue of youthful male saint. NE vestry with plate tracery. Chimney at NW corner of nave.
Simple aisleless interior faced in brick with bathstone dressings. Arches to chancel and apse supported by polychrome marble dwarf shafts on corbels. Low wall at chancel with semi-circular stone pulpit (L) and marble lectern (R). Apse has magnificent mosaic (circa 6m diameter). On golden background Christ enthroned in majesty (inscription "Saltator Mundi"), flanked by angels swinging censers. Above, bands of cherubim/seraphim; below, roundels include symbols of evangelists and Lamb of God.
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