Church of St Lucia and St Gwynin is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 December 1996. A C15 Church.
Church of St Lucia and St Gwynin
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1996
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Lucia and St Gwynin is a 19th-century building constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings, featuring slate roofs with coped gables, two cross finials, and red terracotta crested ridge tiles. The structure includes a west tower, nave, chancel, and a lean-to north vestry. The tower has a high battered base with a bull-nosed string course above a moulded pointed west door, which dates from 1877 and has ornate hinges. Above the string course is a small late medieval carving of a rough roundel depicting a swaddled figure, similar to a carved panel in Llanwenog church, and above this is a late medieval ogee-headed fragment of a traceried panel with a central mullion. There is a single cusped lancet window above, which has been renewed, and a renewed 2-light cusped bell opening. The tower features a corbelled parapet and stepped battlements (also renewed), topped with a recessed slate pyramid spire. Similar bell-lights are present on other sides of the tower.
The nave and chancel have been substantially rebuilt, but the stonework of the lower parts of the walls is likely original. The windows are simple flat-headed designs with cusped pointed lights, dating from 1877, including a south nave with 3-light and 2-light windows, and a blocked arched doorway in between. The north nave has a 2-light window, and the chancel south has a 2-light window. The north vestry features a west door, a small north single light, and an east single-light window. The chancel east window is a 3-light segmental-pointed design made of white stone, which may date from around 1930 when stained glass was inserted. Below this window is a datestone from 1877. The southwest corner of the nave has a small medieval square relief panel depicting the Crucifixion with two attendant figures.
Internally, the tower is not vaulted. The simple plastered interior, dating from 1877, features cambered relieving arches and open wagon roofs supported by arch-braced collar trusses and similar rafters with moulded longitudinal ribs. The octagonal font, also from 1877, is painted ashlar with quatrefoil panels, a moulded shaft with angle beads, and a moulded base. The pews are made of pine and have blank quatrefoil roundels in the bench-ends. A rough stone stoup has been reset in the west wall, and there is a plain pine pulpit. The chancel includes a painted ashlar three-bay reredos with wide cinquefoil-cusped panels that have gold mosaic inserts, featuring a cross in the centre and floral vases on each side. There is a cusped-pointed piscina with a shelf on the south wall, and the east window is a 3-light stained glass window from around 1930, depicting the Resurrection, Crucifixion, and Ascension.
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