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

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building featuring coursed sandstone rubble with freestone dressings. It has a temporary felted roof over the nave, installed by Tapper at a lower level, with earlier roof lines visible on the east wall of the tower. The tower retains its original stone tiles. The church consists of a single cell nave with paired lancet windows designed by Hill, and a south door with a pointed arch. At the sanctuary end, there are north and south two-light windows adorned with Decorated tracery and cusping. The broad 15th-century tower includes a string course and a southwest stair turret, both of which have been reduced in height and topped with a later saddle-back roof. The turret features small narrow lights and fragments of 15th-century tracery that have been reset in the west window of the tower. Portions of older foundations and buttressing can be seen on the northwest corner.

In the churchyard, there are three flights of shallow cobbled steps flanked by rubble walls with flat stone caps, designed by Tapper. An inset memorial tablet commemorates Pryce Hughes, who died in 1914. To the north of the tower, there is a Holy Well, which is a simple rectangular hole in the ground lined with rubble stone, except for the rear where the natural rock face is exposed. This well is accessed by five steps and was formerly roofed over, reputed for its healing properties during the Middle Ages. The churchyard also contains two chest tombs and a distinctive square box tomb with a ball top.

Inside, the church has a typical Radnorshire plain interior with fragments of old wall plaster. There is a low, recapped stone bench around the west end of the nave. The 14th-century font is octagonal with scalloped undersides, restored and set on a base designed by Tapper. In the sanctuary, there is a flat ogee-headed piscina and corbels for a Lenten beam. The church also houses two 17th-century chairs, a lobed stoup dating from around 1200, and a 17th-century communion table and medieval dugout chest stored in the tower. The medieval bell frame originally held three bells, of which one survives, dating to around 1450 and cast by Richard le Beleyetere of Worcester, inscribed with "Sancta Radegunda ora pro nobis."

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