Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1951. Church.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
little-bailey-wind
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 October 1951
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Coursed sandstone rubble with freestone dressings, temporary felted roof to nave by Tapper at a lower level; earlier roof lines are visible on the east wall of the tower. Tower retains stone tiles. Single cell nave with paired lancets by Hill, south door with pointed arch. Sanctuary end has north and south two-light windows with Decorated tracery and cusping. Broad C15 tower with string course and south west stair turret, both reduced in height with later saddle-back roof. Small narrow lights in turret and fragments of C15 tracery reset in west window of tower. Portions of older foundations and buttressing visible on the north west corner.

Churchyard: Three flights of shallow cobbled steps, flanked by rubble walls with flat stone caps, designed by Tapper. Inset memorial tablet to Pryce Hughes d1914.

To north of tower a Holy Well. Simple rectangular hole in the ground lined with rubble stone except for the rear which has exposed natural rock face; reached by five steps. Formerly roofed over and of repute for healing properties in the Middle Age. Two chest tombs and distinctive square box tomb with ball top.

Typical Radnorshire plain interior with fragments of old wall plaster. Low, recapped stone bench around west end of nave. C14 font, octagonal with scalloped undersides, restored and set on base designed by Tapper. Flat ogee-headed piscina in sanctuary and corbels for a Lenten beam. Two C17 chairs, lobed stoup of c1200, and stored in the tower, C17 communion table and medieval dugout chest. Medieval bell frame for three bells, one survives of c1450 cast by Richard le Beleyetere of Worcester, inscribed "Sancta Radegunda ora pro nobis".

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