Church of St David is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 July 2000. Church.

Church of St David

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 July 2000
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St David is a building dating from the 18th century, built of rubble stone with slate roofs and coped, shouldered gables. It comprises a west tower, a nave, and a chancel. The tower is plain with a hipped, overhanging slate roof and swept eaves, featuring tiny two-light bell openings to the north with 19th-century cusped heads and louvres. A small single light is recessed within a crude segmental pointed surround on the north side's ground floor. The west front and south side have no openings.

The nave has four bays, with buttresses and sandstone ashlar two-light windows with Y-tracery and stone voussoirs. The north side features three windows with sandstone hoodmoulds, and a gabled porch in the first bay, possessing a coped gable, pointed chamfered entry, and low-angle buttresses with double oak gates. The inner door has stone voussoirs to a segmental-pointed head and a 19th-century board door. The south side of the nave has only two windows, in the second and fourth bays, with similar tracery but without hoodmoulds. The chancel is lower, with a similar coped gable, a cross-finial, and ashlar gabled shoulders. It contains a 19th-century three-light east window of red sandstone, dating from the early 20th century, with three lancet lights, two tiny trefoils in the spandrels, and a hoodmould. The north side of the chancel has two recessed, chamfered, tiny lancets, along with a memorial from 1834. The south side features a medieval chamfered lancet and a pointed oak-plank door within a chamfered rubble stone surround.

The interior has plastered walls and a nave with a boarded roof of four bays, utilising late 19th-century arch-braced collar trusses with metal plates to the collar and metal-rod ties. The west wall appears to have been cut back at its upper level. The moulded, pointed chancel arch comprises two orders, with the inner arch dying into the piers and the outer arch chamfered on moulded capitals, finished with a hoodmould. Similar stonework defines the reveal of the east window. The chancel has a late 19th or early 20th-century oak open arch-braced rafter roof, with mouldings confined to above the sanctuary. Furnishings include a medieval, crude, deep font, tapered square with chamfered angles, set on an off-centre squat round pier with a round base. An attractive octagonal timber pulpit, potentially from the early 20th century, features closely-set balusters to the upper panels, a moulded cornice, and a panelled base. An eagle lectern is also present, along with earlier 20th-century timber altar rails with flower ornament and later 19th-century pine pews. Monuments include a two-colour neo-classical monument on the north side of the chancel, featuring a fluted pilaster, cornice, and curved top and bottom. This houses a crude sarcophagus plaque commemorating William Powell of the Noyadd (died 1826), signed by Price of Builth. A white marble neo-Grec plaque commemorates Jane Powell of New Hall (died 1849). Various lettered floor slabs in the chancel include one for Thomas Price of Doldlinwyod (died 1787).

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