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

Description

Long low nave, slightly narrower and lower chancel, low west tower with squat broach spire, south porch. Rubble stone incorporating much older masonry in the north and south walls, buttresses on each side. Slate roof to main body of church, shingles to tower. Septifoil-headed doorway in south wall with corbelled head above. Perp windows, tower has round-headed openings.

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

Arch-braced roof with diagonal braces above the collar and herring-bone boarded underside. The truss dividing the chancel from the nave has a tie-beam with open arcadework above, the feet of the chancel roof trusses rest on brackets with pierced trefoil ornament. C15 screen largely rebuilt; six lights either side of wide doorway with tracery head, brattished head rail, moulded mullions, chamfered mid-rail and plank and muntin panelling. Tracery heads to the lights on the south side are original but have lost rosehead cusps shown in earlier illustrations. Font possibly Norman, plain round bowl on cylindrical stem. Pulpit, lectern, reredos, vestry screen, pews, communion rails, encaustic tiles all of 1876 in Gothic style. Glass by Jones and Willis. The alter table has fixed to it a length of enriched timberwork with foliage scroll, the provenance is unknown. C17 communion table with split bobbin work in vestry.

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