Eglwys St Mair is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. Glebe house.

Eglwys St Mair

WRENN ID
solemn-steeple-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 November 1987
Type
Glebe house
Address
Eglwys St Mair, Aberystwyth
OS grid reference
SN 582 815
Coordinates
52.41328, -4.08481
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Eglwys St Mair is a small Victorian church built in the early Decorated style. It features a chancel and a slightly higher aisled nave, along with a northwest porch and a west bellcote. The church is constructed of rubble masonry with freestone dressings, banding, and gable parapets.

The east end is buttressed and has a three-light window with a hoodmould and a stepped cill band, along with two cusped recesses below. There is a corbelled chimney breast on the south side of the chancel, although the stack has been removed. To the left, there is a two-light window and a shouldered doorway. The north aisle overlaps the chancel to include a vestry with a transomed window. The aisle features two-light double cusped windows below a clerestory that has alternating paired lancets and paired lozenge-shaped lights. The porch has diagonal buttresses and a quatrefoil above the boarded doors. The gabled west front has an advanced center that rises to a twin-arched bellcote, with a two-light grouped trefoil-headed window flanked by lancets above a boarded door entrance, which has a gable parapet above it. There are also two-light trefoil-headed aisle windows on the west side.

Inside, the church is whitewashed and has a five-bay nave with plain chamfered arcades and shouldered clerestory openings. The timber trusses feature pointed arch windbraces that rise from paired corbels below the wall plate. The chancel arch has gilded lettering on the moulded capitals, and the two-bay chancel has a similar truss rising from corbelled wall shafts. The roof over the altar has traceried panelling, and there are Gothic fittings, including a gilded and painted octagonal font and a cusped piscina, along with a patterned reredos. Some stained glass was created by Alfred Hemming in 1903.

Local climate

Eglwys St Mair sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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