Circular Churchyard & Pillar Sundial at Church of St.Tysilio is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 April 1993. Terraced house.

Circular Churchyard & Pillar Sundial at Church of St.Tysilio

WRENN ID
floating-postern-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 April 1993
Type
Terraced house
Address
Circular Churchyard & Pillar Sundial at Church of St.Tysilio, Llandysilio
OS grid reference
SJ 267 192
Coordinates
52.76621, -3.08711
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Circular Churchyard and Pillar Sundial at the Church of St. Tysilio was built between 1867 and 1868 by architect G.E. Street in the Early English to Early Decorated style, at a cost of £2,400. The church is constructed from greenish-grey Welshpool stone, featuring snecked, rock-faced blocks with Cefn stone dressings. It has a drip course below the windows, a slate roof with a crested ridge, and cross finials. The structure includes a nave with a north aisle, an inset chancel, and a south timber porch on a stone plinth. The round northwest tower has an arcaded belfry with trefoil-headed lights and a conical cap. A paired lancet window in the south wall of the chancel is inscribed with "AMDG 1868" around a quatrefoil decoration at the apex.

The churchyard is circular and of early origin, containing some chest tombs. Near the south porch, there is a reset stone pillar sundial dating from 1760.

Inside, the north arcade features four tall pointed arches on round piers, and there is a cusped arch in the north chancel wall leading to the vestry. The roof is arch-braced and cusped. A Caen stone reredos by T. Earp includes a central slab of "Rouge Royal" marble flanked by arcaded panels. The north wall of the chancel contains a double piscina and sedile. There is a circular pulpit made of six Gothic panels and an octagonal font with foliated arches, both crafted from Bath stone. Other fittings include stone cancelli, a wrought iron lectern, an altar table and rails, candelabra, and stalls, all designed by Street.

The stained glass includes a three-light window in the east, bordered in white, from 1868 by Clayton and Bell, designed by Street. The nave features a three-light window from 1879 by Powells of Blackfriars West, and paired lancets from 1868 by Clayton and Bell. The north side has paired lancets from 1898 by Curtis Ward-Hughes of London. A brass plate on the west wall commemorates Mary Eyton of Rhysnant (d. 1674) with engraved heroic couplets and classical decoration. There is also a tablet to the Lloyd family dated 1779. The church houses a single 4cwt bell made by Rudhall of Gloucester in 1729.

Local climate

Circular Churchyard & Pillar Sundial at Church of St.Tysilio receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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