Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 March 1953. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
former-nave-snow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 March 1953
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building featuring an undivided chancel and nave, a south porch, and a west bellcote. It dates from the early Perpendicular period and is constructed with random masonry beneath a partially new slate roof, showing signs of rebuilding, especially on the north and east sides.

On the south elevation, there are three square Perpendicular windows with flat heads: two in the nave and one in the chancel, each containing two lights with trefoiled heads. The head of the chancel window is slightly splayed. The chancel's south elevation also has a blocked doorway beneath an elliptical, chamfered stone lintel, which may have led to the cloisters. The south porch features a steeply pitched roof and a segmental-arched entrance, with a planked south door that is also under a segmental-arched head and has two orders of cavetto mouldings.

There is a small cusped window on the north side, which is part of a blocking for a former north door that had a pointed arch with long narrow voussoirs. To the west of this area are some protruding stones indicating the presence of a former porch. The east window, in the Perpendicular style, is slightly off centre and features panel tracery with three lights, each having cinquefoiled arched heads and smaller lights above. All the windows are fitted with ferramenta. The west bellcote is simple, consisting of a projection of the roof line supported by curved, raked struts.

Inside, the medieval roof structure has undergone some alterations and includes arched collar beams with raked, cusped struts and two tiers of short, cusped wind braces. Some trusses have a tie beam at wall plate level. The stained glass in the east window, depicting a crucifixion, a king, an abbess, and a Latin inscription, is said to be from the 15th century but was reassembled in 1891. There are also 19th-century wall memorials. A small circular font, dating from around 1200 and possibly once decorated, sits on a modern hexagonal base and square plinth.

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