Church of St Cynwyl is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 June 1995. A Gothic Church.
Church of St Cynwyl
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1995
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Gothic
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Cynwyl is a 19th-century building constructed from Pwntan stone with Bath stone dressings. It features a steeply pitched slate roof with coped gables and cross finials. The church is designed in the Decorated Gothic style and includes a nave, chancel, west bellcote, north vestry, and south porch. The building has a battered plinth, and the west end is highlighted by a two-light window with a quatrefoil head and hood mould. The tall west bellcote has a battered base, side buttresses, and a steeply gabled ashlar top with a single bell opening.
On the south side of the nave, two sloping buttresses flank two two-light windows with varied foiled heads. The south porch features a steeply gabled roof with a pointed arch and hood mould, and the inner door has a hood mould with carved head stops. The north side has two similar two-light windows and one three-light window with a segmental pointed arch, all with hood moulds. There are sloping buttresses at the northwest corner and between the second and third windows. The chancel includes a similar two-light window on the south side and a three-light east window with three quatrefoils at the head and a hood mould. The north vestry is a lean-to structure, with a diagonal southeast buttress and a flat northeast buttress, as well as a stepped sill and string course on the south and east sides.
Inside, the nave has a scissor rafter roof, plastered walls, and a chamfered chancel arch with moulding that dies into the side walls and a hood mould. The chancel features a collar rafter roof with straight bracing. A heavy octagonal font is adorned with sexfoil panels, rosettes, and a drum base with slate shafts. The church contains pine pews and a panelled pulpit. The chancel fittings and east wall panelling were created by E. A. Roiser around 1939. The east and west windows feature patterned glass by N. W. Lavers from around 1856. The east window includes a central single panel in the 14th-century style designed by Alfred Bell, who later worked with Clayton and Bell, along with three stained glass panels in the top roundels. The west window was dedicated to Thomas Propert (died 1839) and his wife Jane (died 1813), given by John Propert, High Sheriff in 1856. The south window of the chancel is dedicated to the Berriman family and was created by A. L. Wilkinson around 1939.
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