Church of St David is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 September 1962. A Medieval Church.

Church of St David

WRENN ID
rooted-timber-lake
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 September 1962
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St David is a Grade II* listed building featuring a low nave and chancel under a single roof line. The church has a 15th-century wide south porch and an 18th-century timber bellcote topped with a pyramid roof. It is constructed of coursed rubble, including the west end of the bellcote, and has a shingle roof. The north wall contains two early small openings, one with an arched head, while the south and east of the chancel feature paired lancets. The north nave wall has a square-headed diamond-paned window, and the south nave wall has an 18th-century paired round-headed two-light window. Inside, there are substantial roof trusses in the porch, with the outer two being arch-braced and featuring soffit chamfers, while the center truss is a collar truss with cusped apex braces and a single row of cusped wind-braces. Stone benches are present, along with 15th-century moulded doorways and a boarded door that retains remnants of the original hinges.

The churchyard slopes gently and contains few headstones, with some chest tombs. The nave and sanctuary are undivided, featuring arch-braced trusses with alternating tie beams and stub ties, and a boarded underside. The tower partition framing has a high rubble base, and some dado panelling is present. A plain round bowl font from around 1200 sits on a cylindrical base, accompanied by a tiled floor and a 17th-century communion table. Modern furnishings are also included. The walls are plastered, revealing traces of wall paintings uncovered during restoration in the 1980s, which are now largely illegible. The RCAHM survey documented these paintings while they were fresh, noting mainly 18th-century texts, with a skull and crossbones surviving on the north wall. On the west wall, there is a painted board of the Royal Arms featuring a lion and unicorn, signed by J Cartwright de Abaredew in 1733, with relettering above indicating Thos Davies as Churchwarden in 1838 and an altered Royal cipher to VR. The east end contains 18th and 19th-century wall tablets. The tower framing dates to the 18th century, and it houses two bells dated 1707 and 1740.

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