Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 March 1964. Church.

Church of All Saints

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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 March 1964
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a medieval parish church, largely rebuilt in the 19th century. The nave's fabric is likely of medieval origin, with an uncertain date for the chancel and a porch possibly dating to the 17th century. The fenestration is from 1862, featuring an unusual design of long, narrow paired lancet windows set in simple chamfered brickwork. A windowless west end has a battered plinth and a possibly medieval bellcote with a slate saddleback coping, housing two bell openings, one smaller than the other.

The south wall has a large stone porch with cement coping and a rough stone pointed doorway featuring stone benches inside. A reused medieval roof truss, a chamfered oak collar truss with curved timbers forming a pointed arch over the collar, is visible, alongside oak rafters. The south door is pointed with stone voussoirs and a ledged door. To the right are two 2-light windows. The lower chancel has a similar 2-light window to the south and another to the east. An inset plaque commemorates M. Davies of Velindre (died 1757), crafted from ashlar with an arched head and a low relief winged face. A north vestry, dating from the early 20th century, contains a similar 2-light window and a panelled door. The north wall of the nave has a blocked square-headed window and a large, three-step platform with heavy stone blocks and coping stones, the purpose of which is unknown. Two single-light windows are also present.

Inside, the walls are whitewashed and the chancel arch is pointed. Blocked recesses on the north wall indicate the former location of rood-stair doors, and a square recess is low on the chancel north wall. Timber lintels cover the windows, with the exception of a pointed rear arch to the east window, potentially altered in 1908-9. The boarded nave and chancel roofs display Arts and Crafts decorative patterns in red, green, and some blue on a white background. The three-sided nave roof features alternating trails of vine and rose along the wall-plate, the wall-plate itself decorated with a simple red zig-zag of paired pointed ovals. Stylized lilies are interspersed between the trails, while the flat ceiling is adorned with scattered crosses. The five-sided chancel roof has a similar border and vine trails, with scattered crowns between. An elaborate rectangular panel, butting against the east wall and scroll-bordered on three sides, bears a Gothic-lettered Welsh inscription on a blue background featuring intersecting vine trails and a circular panel of the Lamb of God in a plain diamond border. A plain oak screen, dating from 1908-9, is composed of three bays with broadly chamfered posts and beams, panelling to the lower part of each bay, panelled centre doors and shallow, swept double curve heads to the upper open bays. A simple oak cross with lozenge ends sits on one beam. The open bays also serve as frontals to the pulpit and reading desk. Two kneelers for the altar rails echo the pattern of the screen heads. The east window of 1908 features thickly streaked, Arts and Crafts glass and six shields enclosed by a coloured border. Plain pews are throughout. A rough lump of conglomerate has been reset as a stoup near the south door. An unusual font is said to be medieval, comprising a square ashlar bowl with two thick moulded bands, a curved-profile with a recessed cove below.

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