All Saints Church is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 March 1953. Church.

All Saints Church

WRENN ID
gilded-banister-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 March 1953
Type
Church
Address
All Saints Church, Mochdre, Newtown
OS grid reference
SO 072 886
Coordinates
52.48807, -3.36754
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

All Saints Church is a Perpendicular style building, dating from the 16th century. It comprises a nave, chancel, a south porch, a north vestry, and a west bellcote. The church is constructed of random rubble with ashlar dressings, covered by a slate roof. The bellcote has a steep gable with an ornate Celtic cross on the ridge. The bell is housed within an opening featuring a lancet arch, weatherboarding, and louvres. Gables of the nave and chancel have dressed stone copings, with a Celtic cross on the chancel gable. The nave and chancel are buttressed, with the east wall splayed at its base. A three-light Perpendicular style window is located on the west side of the church. The east window is of three lights, also in Perpendicular style, featuring a hood mould and foliage stops. Generally, north and south walls have three-light windows set beneath square heads. The south porch is gabled and topped with a Celtic cross. Its east and west walls feature a pair of cusped lights under square heads, with segmental rere-arches. The doorway is triple-chamfered, lacks capitals, and has a hood mould with foliage stops. The south doorway has a single order of keeled shafts which rise to the arch without capitals, surmounted by a wooden angel. The door is adorned with decorative ironwork. The vestry is gabled, with a doorway on the north side, and a three-stage brick stack rises from the nave roof.

The interior is notable for its seven-bay nave and chancel roof. It features arch-braced trusses with cusped diagonal struts. Each bay includes three tiers of windbraces forming quatrefoils, with boarded panels behind, separated by moulded ribs. The three eastern bays have ribs embossed with a variety of foliage designs. Rafters rest on a moulded cornice, beneath which are four posts to each bay, with boarding behind, supported by a moulded wall plate. Principals stand on hammer beams with carved angels on their ends, and beneath these are tall bracketed wall posts standing on corbels of alternately male and female heads. The interior walls are plastered white. The east window, by Clayton & Bell, depicts the Crucifixion. The west window, by Wailes, commemorates the Hamer sisters of Glanhafren. A hexagonal font in Perpendicular style includes a panelled stem and Tudor roses in quatrefoils around the bowl.

Local climate

All Saints Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% 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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