Church of St David is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1993. Church.
Church of St David
- WRENN ID
- deep-joist-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1993
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St David, Capel Dewi, Llandysul
- OS grid reference
- SN 451 425
- Coordinates
- 52.05926, -4.25953
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St David is a Grade II listed building constructed from rubble stone with slate roofs. It features an aisleless nave and chancel, a west tower, and large gabled transepts. The gables are coped, and the west tower, which is partly situated on the ridge, exhibits a simple Gothic style with plain pointed bell-openings and a corbelled embattled parapet. The tower's west front includes two small pointed lights, a date plaque from 1835, and a pointed arched west door with a hoodmould.
The nave is supported by large angle buttresses at the nave and transept angles, each consisting of one step and flat caps. On the south side of the nave, there is a narrow cusped lancet window to the left that lights the tower stair. The stonework of the transept appears to date from 1835, while the large three-light windows in a Perpendicular style were added in 1886. The chancel, which seems to be entirely from 1886, features an ashlar eaves course, two two-light Perpendicular style windows on the south, a three-light east window, and a lean-to vestry on the north side with one three-light window.
Inside, the church boasts a fine single open barrel roof from 1886, plastered walls, and moulded arches from the same year leading to the transepts, which have similar roofs. There is no chancel arch, and the chancel windows have segmental pointed inner arches.
The chancel is adorned with an alabaster five-panel reredos set in a Gothic timber frame, and there are three stained glass windows on the chancel's side wall, all signed by Jones & Willis from 1904, while the large east window, which is unsigned, dates from around 1902 and is said to reproduce a painting by Gustave Doré. In the tower, there are plain pointed arches on each side, one leading to the nave and the other to the south side spiral stair that ascends to the ringing floor, all crudely Gothic and dating to 1835. Jones & Willis also provided the font, lectern, and pulpit desk in 1886, while Messrs Singer of Frome supplied the cross and candlesticks.
Local climate
Church of St David 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 87% 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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