Parish church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 June 1952. Church.

Parish church of St Mary

WRENN ID
silver-hinge-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 June 1952
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The parish church of St Mary is a medieval building with later additions and alterations. The church includes a chancel, a four-bay nave, a south aisle, a porch, and a north vestry; a planned north aisle was never constructed.

The tower is built of brown-grey rubble, while the rest of the church is of snecked grey stone with Bath stone dressings. The roofs are covered in brown tiles with red tile stripes and some cresting. The interior is faced in Bath stone with red pointing.

The tower, situated in the angle between the south aisle and chancel, is of medieval origin and features castellations and a slightly splayed base. It has a low pyramidal roof with a weather cock. Small pointed-arched windows light the bell stage, with one on the south side having a rectangular hood mould. In the east wall, a medieval arch is blocked by a 19th-century doorway constructed from Bath stone, featuring three trefoil windows above a square-headed door and flanked by shafts with rings.

The two-storey porch has a trefoil doorway and a square-headed window of two trefoiled lights above. To the left of the porch, the angle between it and the aisle contains a polygonal stair tower with a conical roof and weather vane, featuring simple windows and a shouldered doorway. The south aisle has three windows each with three trefoiled lights, and stepped buttresses. The west front is buttressed, featuring a single-light window in the aisle and a group of two 2-light windows with plate tracery in the nave; above the nave windows is a large round window. The north side of the nave has four bays with windows and buttresses similar to those on the south aisle. The vestry has a window and door facing north, and a larger two-light window with a trefoil above to the east. The east end has setback stepped buttresses, a window with geometrical tracery, and a small square window in the gable.

Inside the porch, a stone bench sits to the east below a two-light window, and an effigy of John Lloyd (died 1585) is located to the west beneath a single-light window. The porch features a flat boarded ceiling and a narrow pointed doorway into the church with continuous keel moulding. The nave has four bays with an arcade to the south aisle, supported by octagonal piers and capitals. The chancel arch is constructed from Bath stone with ringed half shafts and continuous keel and hood moulds. The chancel incorporates a vestry containing an organ, separated from the chancel by a large bipartite arch with a central cylindrical trumeau. The inner orders of the arch are supported on corbels, and the spandrel is pierced by a cinquefoil opening with a small oculus below, all covered by a hood mould.

The nave roof has five trefoiled principal trusses supported on moulded stone corbels. Both the principal and subsidiary trusses have two collars, and there are two tiers of purlins with herringbone boarding between the common rafters. The aisle roof has cruck-like trusses with crossed braces, all trusses supported on moulded stone corbels. The chancel roof is boarded and of a pointed tunnel type. An effigy in the porch depicts John Lloyd (died 1585), inscribed "Ysquer to the bodye" to Elizabeth I, and is shown in military dress, which is worn and damaged.

Stained glass windows are present; the east window is by C.E. Kempe, dating to 1877, and the west window is by Heaton, Butler, and Bayne, dating to 1945.

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