Church of St David is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 March 1995. Church.
Church of St David
- WRENN ID
- far-rubble-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1995
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St David, Llandewi Fach, Painscastle
- OS grid reference
- SO 146 454
- Coordinates
- 52.10055, -3.24789
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St David was rebuilt on an ancient site by architects Pritchard and Seddon between 1857 and 1860. It features a small nave, chancel, south porch, and a louvred bellcote topped with a pyramid roof. The church is constructed of rubble stone and has clasping diagonal set buttresses, with an artificial slate roof. The south wall of the nave is notable for its unusual two-light windows designed in the 14th century bar tracery style, complete with cusped heads and glazed lunettes.
The churchyard is very small, containing numerous tombstones and yew trees, including an inscribed grave slab from 1691 located by the southeast corner of the porch.
Inside, there is a fireplace in the north wall, a flagstone floor, and a tall pointed chancel arch. The ceiling is boarded, and there is re-used dado panelling. The turned communion rails are dated 1712, and there is an octagonal font along with two simple 17th-century wooden benches that feature scribed mouldings.
Local climate
Church of St David receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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