Church of St Tyfriog is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 March 1992. Church.

Church of St Tyfriog

WRENN ID
western-alcove-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 March 1992
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Tyfriog, Llandyfriog
OS grid reference
SN 332 411
Coordinates
52.04344, -4.4324
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Tyfriog is a simple Perpendicular Gothic style church built from randomly coursed rubble, with limited use of freestone dressings, some of which are painted. It features a plinth and simple buttresses at the east end and the southeast of the nave. The church has slate roofs with overhanging eaves, a nave that is lower and narrower than the chancel, and a southwest tower. The two-stage tower has been cut down and includes a crenellated parapet, concrete cappings, and a set-back pyramidal spire that dates from around 1960.

The belfry has long lancet windows, and there is a four-centred doorway on the north side with a chamfered square-headed architrave and a blue-brick relieving arch. The east window is a stepped five-light design with uncarved label stops and a stepped-up sill band. There are two four-light mullion windows on the north and south sides of the nave, with a smaller one on the south side of the chancel featuring cusped lights. The west end has a date plaque above paired two-light windows that share a common drip mould and sill band. A boarded door is located on the north side, along with a lean-to vestry that has a plain three-light mullion window and a four-centred east doorway with a boarded door.

Inside, the church has scissor-rafter roofs and steps leading up to the chancel. There is an octagonal stone font and a timber-fronted pulpit, both from the late 19th century, along with late 19th-century benches. The east window, made by Clayton and Bell in 1929, complements the west windows from 1925 and 1927. The north wall features early 19th-century white marble plaques commemorating the Hall and Braithwaite families, ancestors of the Fitzwilliams family of Cilgwyn. The south wall includes a further memorial to the Fitzwilliams family, created around 1912 by Norbury of Liverpool, as well as an early 19th-century hatchment.

Local climate

Church of St Tyfriog sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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