Church of St Cynog is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 May 2003. Church.

Church of St Cynog

WRENN ID
high-lime-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 May 2003
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Cynog, Llangynog Village, Llangynog
OS grid reference
SJ 053 261
Coordinates
52.82413, -3.40679
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Cynog is a church that consists of a single cell, along with a vestry and a heating apparatus chamber to the north, and a small porch to the south. The building is constructed from local uncoursed quasi-dressed slate, with sandstone dressings around the doors and windows. It features a slate roof laid in regular courses, with coped gables on carved Gothic kneelers at both the east and west ends. The west gable supports a single-opening bellcote made of ashlar stone. The porch and vestry also have similarly styled coped gables. A chimney is located against the north wall at the junction of the vestry and heating chamber, with the stack rising 2 meters above the main eaves.

The east window is a three-light traceried design with a label mould, while the south side has three two-light windows, each with label moulds, and one window on the north side. The south window, which illuminates the chancel, has a higher sill. The porch features an open two-order equilateral pointed outer arch and a pointed inner arch with a boarded door. The vestry includes a boarded door beneath a corbelled lintel and a two-light window on the north side. There is also a north door and a west window leading to the heating chamber.

Access to the church is through the south porch. Inside, the nave is short and contains two banks of simply moulded pews made of pitch pine. A rounded stone pulpit with quatrefoil piercings is positioned to the left. Near the door, there is a square 19th-century Gothic font on an octagonal base. The floor is made of red herringbone tiles.

The nave and chancel are divided into five bays, featuring arch-braced collar-beam trusses supported by corbels. There are two steps leading up to the chancel, which is separated by a low pitch-pine screen. The plain choir-stalls include a prayer desk on the right. There is a single step to the sanctuary and an additional step to the altar. The floors of the chancel and sanctuary are made of black and red quarry tiles, with encaustic tile inserts. An oak reredos spans the full width of the east wall and returns at both the north and south ends, dated 1941. To the left of the chancel, a single arch and lobby provide access to the vestry.

In the nave, there is a small brass plaque dedicated to Jane Lloyd, who donated £200 for the restoration in 1881, along with three other brass memorials.

Local climate

Church of St Cynog sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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