Church of St Cadfan is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1953. Church.

Church of St Cadfan

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 1953
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Cadfan, Llangadfan, Banwy
OS grid reference
SJ 011 103
Coordinates
52.68166, -3.46428
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Cadfan is a single-cell church that does not distinguish between the nave and chancel. It is built from local stone, rendered, with freestone dressings. The church has 19th-century additions, including a belfry, porch, and vestry designed by Benjamin Lay, which are made of quasi-coursed rock-faced gritstone with freestone dressings. The roof is slate with a tile ridge and a cross finial at the east.

The east window features a two-centred Perpendicular design with three main lights and tracery lights above, retaining much of its original stonework. The north and south windows are all from the 19th-century restoration, consisting of single or double lights with trefoil heads and labels that have head terminals. The main entrance arch is made of blue bricks, and the west elevation is plain.

On the west face of the vestry, there is a recent slate memorial to William Jones, who died in 1795 and was a poet, critic, and local historian buried in the churchyard.

Access to the church is through the south porch. Inside the nave, to the left of the door, there is a medieval stoup corbelled from the wall. The nave is simple, featuring two banks of plain pews and a quarry tile floor. The barrel ceiling conceals the medieval roof. There is a small projecting understructure of the belfry at the west, which has a pointed door. A benefactions board in English is located on the west wall, along with a 19th-century bowl-shaped Gothick font made of grey freestone.

The small chancel is defined by an arch that was inserted during the 19th-century restoration and features a timber boarded ceiling with carvings from the former gallery. The pulpit, dated 1645, is located on the left side (it was moved from the opposite side in the 19th century). There is a hardwood altar rail supported by decorative iron standards.

The concealed roof is reported to be arch-braced with cusped struts and windbraces, tenoned purlins, and lacks a ridge beam.

Local climate

Church of St Cadfan sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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