St Andrew's Church is a Grade I listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 November 1950. A C14 (with later alterations and fittings C17-C19 and later) Church.
St Andrew's Church
- WRENN ID
- final-cinder-pigeon
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- Church
- Period
- C14 (with later alterations and fittings C17-C19 and later)
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
St Andrew's Church is a Grade I listed building featuring an aisled nave with a southwest tower above the porch. The church has a three-bay chancel with a Lady Chapel to the southeast, which is linked to an expanded south aisle. There is a polygonal rood loft stair at the northern junction of the nave and chancel. The exterior is constructed with rubble facings and ashlar dressings, topped with slate roofs. The gable-end parapets have finials, and there are plain parapets at the eastern end and south chapel, along with corner buttresses, which are diagonal at the southern angles of the tower. Notable architectural elements include significant parts of round-arched openings that are blocked, a chancel arch, and a west door front featuring a five-light Perpendicular window situated between the buttresses and 14th-century lean-to aisles.
The tower, which dates from the 14th century and later, has three stages with crenellated parapets and a weathervane over the northwest caphouse. Pointed bell-openings rise through a stringcourse, and a Perpendicular window has been inserted above the four-centred porch entrance, which has an octopartite rib vault beneath it. The chancel contains five- and three-light Perpendicular windows under four-centred arches with cavetto splays, while the Lady Chapel features similar windows along with a Tudor window in the upper gable.
The nave, which is seven bays long and dates from the 14th century, has arcades that retain two reused Romanesque piers at the northwest corner. Clerestory windows are positioned above the spandrels, and the roof is a trussed rafter type. The south chapel has an alternating arched brace and tie-beam roof. The chancel features tall chamfered arches leading to the chancel and southeast chapel, with a shallow late medieval roof that has trusses on wall posts and moulded ribs. Inside, there are notable 17th to early 19th-century wall monuments.
Additional features include fragments of medieval stained glass in the upper Lady Chapel window, a small medieval carved figure of St Andrew above the west window, an early 16th-century Flemish tapestry on the north wall, and a fine Georgian chandelier from 1744. There is also a carillon from 1726 and various other furnishings, including a brass crucifix, candlesticks, a chancel screen, and a pulpit, all designed by Pearson.
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