Church of St David is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 May 1962. A Medieval Church.

Church of St David

WRENN ID
white-copper-onyx
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 May 1962
Type
Church
Address
Church of St David, Cregrina, Glascwm
OS grid reference
SO 123 521
Coordinates
52.16019, -3.28248
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St David is a simple Gothic style church, featuring a nave with a wider chancel. It has roughcast walls that have been whitened and a slate roof with overhanging eaves. The nave includes a medieval pointed south doorway with a continuous chamfer and a boarded door. To the right of this doorway is a two-light Decorated window. The south wall of the chancel has two pointed lights and a boarded door to the right of center. The east window consists of three stepped cusped lights. On the north side, there are three pointed lights: one for the chancel and two for the nave. The west wall has a plain two-light square-headed window. A gabled west bellcote aligns with the nave, featuring a roughcast west side and weatherboarded sides.

Inside, the four-bay nave roof has three arched-brace trusses with tie beams, with the eastern truss plastered above the collar and the tie beam serving as the rood beam. A queen-post truss at the west end supports the bellcote, and the roof includes two tiers of diagonal braces. The chancel has a similar three-bay arched-brace roof, featuring two tiers of uncusped windbraces and cambered tie beams. A simple corbelled piscina is located in the south wall.

A reconstructed rood screen does not fully span the width of the nave. It has a central doorway flanked by slender pinnacled shafts, although most of the intricate tracery above the doorway is missing. On either side of the doorway, there are three bays with delicate cusped tracery heads and a boarded dado. The original coving is missing, but a moulded beam likely served as the original bressumer.

The plain round tub font, dating from the 12th or 13th century, stands on a later plinth. The interior features simple early 20th-century pews, choir stalls, a polygonal pulpit, and a communion rail supported by iron uprights. In the south wall, there is a tablet commemorating Thomas Sheen, who died in 1822, set on a corbelled apron.

Local climate

Church of St David sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% 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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