Church of St Tecla including the Churchyard with Tomb Chests is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 August 1993. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Tecla including the Churchyard with Tomb Chests

WRENN ID
gentle-niche-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
11 August 1993
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Tecla, dating from the medieval period, features a long low nave and a slightly narrower and lower chancel. It has a low west tower topped with a squat broach spire and a south porch. The walls are constructed of rubble stone that incorporates much older masonry, with buttresses on each side. The main body of the church has a slate roof, while the tower is covered with shingles. A septifoil-headed doorway is located in the south wall, topped with a corbelled head. The church has Perpendicular style windows, and the tower includes round-headed openings.

The churchyard is sub-circular and contains numerous chest tombs adorned with finely carved designs.

Inside, the church features an arch-braced roof with diagonal braces above the collar and a herring-bone boarded underside. The truss that separates the chancel from the nave has a tie-beam with open arcadework above, and the feet of the chancel roof trusses rest on brackets with pierced trefoil ornament. A 15th-century screen, largely rebuilt, has six lights on either side of a wide doorway with a tracery head, a brattished head rail, moulded mullions, a chamfered mid-rail, and plank and muntin panelling. The original tracery heads on the lights to the south side remain, although they have lost the rosehead cusps depicted in earlier illustrations. The font, possibly Norman, features a plain round bowl on a cylindrical stem. The pulpit, lectern, reredos, vestry screen, pews, communion rails, and encaustic tiles were all added in 1876 in a Gothic style, with glass by Jones and Willis. The altar table has a length of enriched timberwork with foliage scroll attached to it, though its provenance is unknown. Additionally, there is a 17th-century communion table with split bobbin work located in the vestry.

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