Church of St Tydecho is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 June 1966. Church.
Church of St Tydecho
- WRENN ID
- quartered-ledge-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1966
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Tydecho is a Grade II listed building constructed of local stone, featuring a slate roof with coped gables and boulder foundations on the west wall. It has a nave with a south porch at the west end and a narrower chancel, all designed in a simple Early English style. The church includes three paired and one single trefoil-headed windows with diamond pattern glazing, along with two trefoil-headed lancets on each side of the chancel and a similar triple E window. A gabled bellcote rises from the west wall, housing a bell dated 1734. There is a brass benchmark marked 0755S. The porch has a gabled and coped face with rounded kneelers, featuring an opening with a chamfered outer 2-centred arch and a similar inner doorway.
Inside, the nave comprises four roof bays supported by 19th-century braced collar beam trusses, which have been recently reinforced with steel ties and ring bolts. The rafters are exposed, and the walls are plastered and whitened. The floor is flagged, with the central aisle laid in quarry tiles. A plain chamfered chancel arch leads to the two-bay chancel, which is roofed on three braced collar trusses.
Notable fittings include a fine Jacobean table altar, now located in the vestry, featuring baluster legs and moulded stretchers. The pulpit, the current altar table, and the Communion rails are all made of oak and date from the 1930s. The font, situated at the rear of the church, is likely from the late 12th to early 13th century and made of Grinshill stone. It has an octagonal bowl that tapers downwards, with a flat raised girth band and large lobes or scallops around the rim, set on a domed granite base, possibly a millstone.
The church contains stained glass windows in both the north and south walls, designed in a Pre-Raphaelite style, depicting SS Luke and Cornelius, dedicated to Sir William Roberts of Bryn Hall, who died in 1899, and Jonathan and Samuel, dedicated to W P J Roberts, who died in 1893.
Monuments within the church include a white marble on grey memorial by T R Jones of Llanfair, commemorating Rev Owen Hughes, rector from 1907 to 1913, located on the south wall of the nave. Another monument features fossil marble dedicated to Hugh Llewelyn Jones, who died in the Second World War. In the southwest angle of the porch, there is an external memorial for Richard Hughes, rector from 1737. Additionally, there are two brass plates, one honoring Henry Edwards, Dean of Bangor, who died in 1884 and was born here, and another for David Rees, a bellringer who died in 1924.
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