Church of Saint Teilo is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 October 2005. A Medieval Church.
Church of Saint Teilo
- WRENN ID
- noble-rubblework-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 October 2005
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of Saint Teilo is a parish church built from rubble stone and features a slate roof with two color bands. It consists of a single long vessel and has a small square bell turret at the west end. The bell turret is slated on all sides and topped with a slate pyramid roof. The west face of the turret slightly overhangs on three oak uncarved brackets. The windows are Victorian cusped lancets made of Bath stone. The west end has a single light window situated between two large buttresses with battered bases, a high string course that serves as a sill course under the window, and sloped upper sections that meet at a point near the eaves.
On the south side, there is a two-light, moulded pointed door with a hoodmould (the stops are awaiting carving) and double doors. This side also features a two-light window, a taller two-light window with a quatrefoil above it under a gable with bargeboards, a blocked chancel door that is roughly arched with stone voussoirs, and a single light window. The east end has a three-light window with three cusped lights and two quatrefoils beneath a pointed hoodmould, along with a wrought iron cross on the gable end. The north side is similar to the south side but does not have a door; it includes two two-light windows, a larger two-light window with a quatrefoil under a gable, and a single light for the chancel. Traces of limewashed plaster are visible, especially under the eaves, and more is evident in early photographs.
The interior is not available for inspection, but it is known to have whitewashed plastered walls and a fine 16th-century roof with thirteen bays, featuring braced collar-trusses and king-posts over collars with trefoil cusping in the openings on each side. The west end includes a Victorian vestry with boarded walls. The south wall has a small medieval stoup by the door. The chancel is raised by one step, with further steps leading to the sanctuary and altar, which has recesses on the north and south sides. There is a medieval font that is octagonal and dates from the 14th century, as well as a remnant of a late medieval screen that includes a plain dado, posts, and a headbeam. The east window features stained glass from 1914.
Notable monuments include a graveslab for Rev R. David who died in 1614, a memorial for Edward Jones who died in 1820 by H. Westmacott, and a Gothic monument for David Watkins Lloyd who died in 1865, created by Williams of Brecon.
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