Church of St David is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 March 1992. Church.

Church of St David

WRENN ID
waning-zinc-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 March 1992
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St David is a Grade II listed building constructed from coursed sandstone rubble blocks with freestone dressings, topped with a stone slate roof and crested ridge tiles. The east gable features exposed arch-braced timbers. The church has a low nave with paired cusp-headed lancets, and the sanctuary end includes a square-headed two-light window that incorporates fragments of 15th-century tracery in the south wall. The east window is designed in the Decorated style and has a hoodmould. To the northwest, there is a lean-to vestry covered with a stone tile roof, featuring leaded lights and a stone gabled chimney. The south door leads into the west tower bay, which has an open timberwork porch with a stone plinth, pierced quatrefoil panels, moulded bargeboards, and a pendant. A quatrefoil light is present on the west wall of the tower.

The churchyard is enclosed and contains several chest tombs as well as distinctive 19th-century square box tombs topped with balls. Inside, the nave roof has a single collar truss with curved hammer braces, while the chancel roof features alternating trussed common rafters and elaborated collar beam trusses with arcaded infill. The truss above the chancel screen has a collar with large cusped arch braces below and a cross-shaped brace above. The chancel screen consists of three large arched openings beneath a battlemented tie beam, with spandrels displaying Maltese crosses within pierced circles. The east wall reredos is arranged in two tiers and incorporates the moulded surround of the east window, featuring ornate blank arcading with cusped heads and black marble shafts in the Gothic style. The north wall of the chancel has a very large blank arch with an inset door leading to the vestry, designed in Tudor style with deep hollow mouldings, quatrefoil spandrels, and a square-headed hoodmould with scroll ends.

The pulpit includes 17th-century pulpit panels that were removed from Pilleth Church. A wall tablet from Pilleth has been restored and set on the south wall of the chancel in 1908, likely not in its original form. The upper section of the tablet features a swan-neck pediment and a coat of arms, with an inscription dedicated to John Price of Pilleth Court, who died in 1597. The church also contains a hexagonal font dating from the 14th century.

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