Church of St Gwyndaf is a Grade II* listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 July 1993. A C19 Church.
Church of St Gwyndaf
- WRENN ID
- proud-roof-cream
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1993
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Gwyndaf is a Grade II* listed building featuring rubble stone construction and a tarred slate roof. It has a low nave and chancel, with a west double bellcote and short lean-to aisles that embrace the east end of the nave and the west end of the chancel. The south porch is gabled and large, with a pointed arch, a slate shelf above, and a coped gable topped with a rough block finial. There is a small sanctus bellcote over the east end of the nave and a battered, windowless west wall that supports a leaning two-arch bellcote, which has 19th-century coping and a cross.
Inside, the church features a plastered stone vaulted roof, stone seats, and a small squint window into the south aisle. To the right, the two-window aisle overlaps the chancel, containing two 2-light windows and a single light at the east end, all dating from 1880 to 1882. An early Christian carved stone depicting a human figure is located under the aisle's east window. The stonework of the chancel appears to be entirely from 1882, although the single lights on each side incorporate fragments of the original structure, and incised cross stones have been reset in the wall on each side. The east end features a three-light window made of Bath stone, also from 1882. The north lean-to aisle has one medieval single light and one 2-light window from 1880 to 1882. There is a late 18th-century plaque on the east wall, and the nave contains one 2-light window from 1880 to 1882.
The interior has yellow-washed plaster, with the original chancel arch and arches leading west into the aisles being plastered. The arches to the aisles east of the chancel arch were rebuilt in the 19th century. Low plastered arches connect the nave and chancel aisles. The nave features three original king-post trusses, while the north aisle has a plastered and stone vaulted ceiling, and the south aisle has a 19th-century roof. The east end of the nave has rough stone corbels. A medieval plain square font with a round shaft stands on an unusually large 6-foot square plinth. Stone seats are positioned against the west and south walls of the nave. The chancel, constructed in 1882, has a pine roof with trusses on corbels, encaustic tiles, and brass standards for the rails. Two piscinas are built into the south wall of the chancel and the wall of the south aisle, both discovered during restoration work.
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