Parish Church of St David including Wall Fronting New Road is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 May 1988. Shop. 1 related planning application.

Parish Church of St David including Wall Fronting New Road

WRENN ID
ragged-moulding-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 May 1988
Type
Shop
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St David is a complex, largely 19th-century building constructed of buff brick in a Gothic Revival style, with details demonstrating influence from the Lancet style. The church includes a tall, aisled nave with a west tower, a north porch, and a small apse at the east end.

The main body of the church features aisles of six bays. The third bay from the west on the north side contains a two-story gabled porch with clasping buttresses and square pinacles. A pointed arch, flanked by twin lancet windows and with a hoodmould above, is a prominent feature. Stepped buttresses support gables with paired tall lancet windows, corbelled eaves, and slate roofs. Plain pinacles adorn the corners of the clasping buttresses. Single lancet windows are present on the west aisle, now blocked, and a similar clearstorey incorporates tripartite lancets. The five-stage saddleback tower rises from the west, featuring pinnacles, vents above paired lancets on the bell stage, and unused clock openings. A polygonal vice is situated on the south side of the tower. A doorway is located on the north, and there are shallow twin lancets to the west. The church houses a peal of six bells originally from the old church. The chancel has a steeper roof with gable parapets and polygonal pinacles on stepped angle buttresses, complementing the corbelled eaves and pointed, shouldered arches framing the flank windows, continuous hood mouldings, and sill bands. A large, five-light Geometric traceried window marks the east end. An organ chamber extends at a right angle to the north, featuring angle buttresses and twin lancets. A single-story vestry is attached to the south, featuring a porch and lancet windows.

A churchyard wall, built contemporary with the 1847 church, fronts New Road. It includes matching gate piers reminiscent of the church pinnacles, with iron gates of later date.

Inside, polygonal arcade piers support pointed, decoratively moulded arches with moulded capitals. Masks are carved at the springing points and tops of the capitals. A string course runs alongside the clerestory hoodmoulds to the windows. The original inner doors of the north porch are blocked, revealing a relocated Baroque wall monument dating to 1739. This monument commemorates the wives of Sir John Pryce of Newtown Hall and features columns, a heraldic crest, and flying putti. King post and tie beam trusses are fitted with cusping. A north aisle chapel, designed by H L North of Bangor in 1938, has been added. A delicate parclose screen and altar canopy, crafted from a very fine 15th-century vine scroll screen originally from St Mary's, provides a notable feature. Cusped sedilia and a priest’s door are present in the chancel, along with nookshafts. A pointed arch marks the entrance to the organ chamber, also with nookshafts. The pulpit, potentially by Walker, incorporates a trefoil arcade. Other furnishings include a font from the 13th century, an 18th-century candelabra, cartouches and paintings by John Dyer dating from 1730 (all originally from St Mary’s Church), and good stained glass in the east window, dating from 1902 and depicting Victoria.

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