St Cawrda Church is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 February 1994. A Medieval Church.
St Cawrda Church
- WRENN ID
- sunken-gallery-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1994
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
St Cawrda Church is a Grade II listed building featuring a rubble stone nave, chancel, and west tower, topped with a slate roof that has coped gables and two cross finials. The church has two stepped side buttresses on both the nave and chancel, and each side of the nave contains two large pointed leaded single lights, with a similar window in the east wall of the chancel. There is a south vestry attached to the chancel, which also has side buttresses, a coped gable, and one window, along with a pointed door on the west side of the vestry. The tower is supported by two stepped diagonal buttresses and features embattled parapets and stone corner finials, along with a pointed arched doorway that has double doors.
Inside, the church has a cement-rendered interior and a boarded scissor rafter roof. The nave is furnished with oak pews and three central hanging oil lamps. The chancel arch is crude, with three shafts and carved capitals that are chamfered with incised triangles made of Bath stone. An oak pulpit with an adjustable oil lamp is located behind the pulpit, which has a slab recording that the church was rebuilt in 1797. The west end of the church features two slate plaques, one displaying the Creed and the other the Lord's Prayer. Above the door is a coat of arms belonging to Sir J J Hamilton, noting that the church was repaired and the tower was rebuilt in 1863. The church also contains a 13th-century circular scalloped grey stone font on a cylindrical base.
Fittings include one oil lamp on each side of the chancel arch in the chancel, which also has a recess and a door leading to the vestry on the south side. The vestry was restored in 1909. The altar, plain Gothic altar rails, and two prayer desks are all made of oak. The east window, created by Celtic Studios in 1949, features the Ten Commandments on slate, with one commandment on each side. The north side of the chancel has a plaque recording the church's rebuilding in 1863 and the tower's restoration in 1880. Notable monuments include a Neo-Grecian monument with a draped urn and oak leaf wreath to G G Vaughan (died 1837), a marble plaque to G Vaughan (died 1808), and a fine Bath stone monument to Jenkin Vaughan (died 1675) that has a scrolled pediment and Jacobean style piers. Additionally, the south side of the chancel features a large marble slab dedicated to the Mathias family of Llwyngwarren, dated around 1815, and a chancel floor slab commemorating Thomas Mathias of Llangwarren from 1617, which includes incised coats of arms.
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