Parish Church of St Llwchaiarn is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 1949. Church.
Parish Church of St Llwchaiarn
- WRENN ID
- former-roof-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1949
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of St Llwchaiarn, Llanllwchaiarn, Newtown, Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
- OS grid reference
- SO 123 925
- Coordinates
- 52.52357, -3.29288
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Llwchaiarn is a Grade II listed building featuring a four-bay nave with rusticated brick quoins and a gently pitched slate roof. The church has deep boarded eaves above a moulded cornice that returns to the west end, with plain bargeboards. The nave includes a two-light Decorated Gothic tracery window with hoodmoulds.
At the west end, there is a rectangular, three-stage tower with freestone obelisk finials on the corniced parapet. The bell stage has louvred round arched openings with stone sills, while the first stage features round windows that have been blocked to form a sundial on the south side. A freestone band runs around the tower, and above the round arched west door, there is a stone panel dated 1815, flanked by a plain fanlight and panelled double doors.
The Gothic chancel includes a south vestry, constructed of Flemish bond brick with steeply pitched slate roofs. It features cross finials and raking gable parapets on kneelers, as well as a three-light decorated flowing tracery east window with a hoodmould. The chancel has set back angle buttresses and a two-light window on the vestry with diagonal buttresses.
Inside, the nave roof consists of king post v-strut tie beam trusses, which were exposed in 1864 when cusped brackets were added. There is a gallery at the west end, with re-used 18th-century panelling at the front. Octagonal timber posts flank the centre aisle, and there is a plaster cornice along the passage. The chancel arch is composed of two orders on half columns, topped with a painted scroll overthrow. The reredos and re-used panelling from Welshpool Church were erected in 1892.
The stained glass includes an east window and north chancel window by N O'Connor from 1868, a south side nave window by Morris and Co from around 1870, a window by H G Hiller from 1920, and a north side nave window by C A Gibbs from 1874.
Additionally, there is a monument to Sarah Baxter from 1774, featuring a pink marble cartouche with drapery in the style of Nelson of Shrewsbury.
Local climate
Parish Church of St Llwchaiarn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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