Former Parish Church of St Mary and Pryce Mausoleum is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 1949. House.

Former Parish Church of St Mary and Pryce Mausoleum

WRENN ID
roaming-bastion-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 July 1949
Type
House
Address
Former Parish Church of St Mary and Pryce Mausoleum, Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
OS grid reference
SO 108 918
Coordinates
52.51688, -3.3148
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former Parish Church of St Mary and Pryce Mausoleum, located on Old Church Street in Newtown, is a ruined structure featuring a double nave and a west tower. The building is constructed from rubble with red sandstone dressings, and the south wall has been largely restored. In 1902, buttresses and a pointed arch were added. The chancel includes a priest's doorway with a hoodmould and a piscina that may date back to the 14th century. The eastern end of the church survives only to sill level, while the northern wall has only its foundations remaining.

The west tower is three stories high and features a lap boarded timber bell stage topped with a pyramidic slate roof. The second story has two 14th-century two-light cusped windows, which have been largely restored, while the first story has single slit-like windows. There is also a restored early stilted pointed arched doorway with a hoodmould.

Inside, there is a late 15th-century screen, angel roof bosses, and early 18th-century monuments. The bells from this church have been relocated to St David's Church on New Road. The church originally included an interesting timber arcade.

Within the church, there is a small Gothic mausoleum for the Pryce family of Newtown Hall, built in 1900 with white marble and red sandstone dressings. It features a gabled stone tile roof with gable parapets, a pointed arch door with a hood, and two-light pointed windows on the flanks.

Local climate

Former Parish Church of St Mary and Pryce Mausoleum sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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