Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1998. Church.

Parish Church

WRENN ID
gaunt-railing-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 October 1998
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The parish church, likely dating to the 18th century, is constructed of squared snecked stone quarried from behind the church, with dressings of Henllan limestone. The south side and west end have been rendered with a stone-chip finish. The roof is slate. The church is designed in a lancet style, featuring low raking buttresses at the corners. A large, chamfered arch forms the open south porch, leading to a boarded door with scrolled hinges. Lancet windows are present throughout, paired at the eastern end of the nave, two widely spaced in the west gable, and triple at the east end. A slightly corbelled bell boxing is located at the west end.

The nave is broad, with a short, narrower chancel. The nave roof is composed of three bays with crown post trusses and curved struts, supporting an open rafter roof ceiled at collar level. The walls are plastered, and the windows are splayed internally. A quarry-tiled floor is present. The wide chancel arch leads to a chancel with an open rafter roof, scissor braced. The walls are plastered, and an interesting patterned stone flooring is visible. The sanctuary is raised a further step and is panelled to dado height with oak panelling by Charles Nicholson, installed in 1903. The panelling features painted arms on the east wall and a built-in server's seat on the south side. A limestone reredos with strapwork cresting and inlay of red and green marbles is also present. The transept is similarly roofed and currently houses the organ and storage.

Contemporary stained glass by Clayton and Bell is found in the west lancets, and glass by F W Oliphant, dated 1857, commemorates Major H Wynne, who died at Inkerman, in the east triple lancets. Further stained glass is present in a pair of south nave lancets (1912) and a north window (1932) by Sir Ninian Comper.

The fittings include a balustered altar rail, an altar with a carved front, and a part-octagonal pulpit with a stumpwork hanging, approached by five steps. A brass eagle lectern is dated 1924. The font, located at the west end, is made of compact limestone, consisting of a square block cut with trefoil arches, set on a short column with marble colonnettes at the angles, and resting on an octagonal base. Curule pews are also present. Within the vestry, an 18th-century marble bowl font on a baluster stem is stored.

Monuments are located throughout the church. On the south wall of the chancel is a red sandstone strapwork cartouche to Col Charles Arthur Wynne-Finch, who died in 1903, by R Davison. In the transept is a fine 18th-century white marble wall monument by Westmacott snr., portraying a seated draped female clasping in grief a pedestalled urn set against a pyramid, dedicated to John Griffith of Cefn Amwlch, Caernarfonshire, who died in 1794 and was a descendant of Rees ap Tudor and ancestor of the Wynne Finch family of Voelas. Four marble framed pink granite tablets are on the east and west walls of the east transept: one to Charles Wynne Griffith Wynne of Voelas, who died in 1865, with enamelled arms; one to Sarah, wife of the last, featuring coloured marbles with cabochon semi-precious stones; one to Charles Wynne Finch, who died in 1874, with a dark red marble frame; and one to Jane Finch, who died in 1811, the frame of which has been removed.

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