Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 November 1997. Church.
Church of St Mary
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 November 1997
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Anglican church, rubble stone with slate roofs and coped gables. Nave and chancel with S porch and N vestry. A W bellcote has been removed. Nave W has corbelled base of bellcote and 3-light Forest of Dean stone W window, Perp style, possibly of c1920 by W.D. Caroe. Nave S has 2-light plate-traceried window of 1859 with stone voussoirs to left of porch. Porch, C19 externally with coped gable has fine whitewashed panelled stone vault, 4-centred. To right, spanning junction of nave and chancel is blocked 2-bay arcade of 4-centred arches, probably C15, on square centre pier. Inserted in left bay is 2-light window of c1859 and in right bay a 3-light 4-centred window of c1920. Wall then steps in and chancel S is otherwise windowless. 3-light E window of c1859, with three circles in head. N side has lean-to vestry of 1904 and 2 2-light windows of 1859 to nave N.
Victorian roofs, 6-bay to nave, arch-braced collar trusses, thin scissor-braced trusses to chancel. Medieval square ashlar font with lower corners chamfered, round base, shaft missing. Pulpit of 1918 in grey ashlar, possibly by W.D. Caroe. Thin iron altar rails possibly of 1859. Stained glass: by Morris & Co, made posthumously to Burne-Jones designs, the 3-light W window Courage/St George/Fortitude c1920, and 2 N 2-light windows, the first, Suffer the little children, 1913, the second, Nativity, 1917. One nave S window, SS David & Madoc, 1985, by Celtic Studios. Chancel S has c1920 Morris & Co window, Christ and boy-scout, not to Burne Jones design. Stamped quarries of c1859 in E window. Monuments: Nave S has brass plaque to John Grant d1804 next to niche with fine classical memorial to the Rev. John Grant, 1790, made of Coade stone. Female figure over classical inscribed pedestal. Neo-Grec plaque to Henry Rees of Folkeston , d 1834, by Wood of Bristol; numerous plaques to the Stokes of Cuffern and Scotchwell, the best at E end of nave, to John Stokes of Roch Castle, d1770, and the wife and daughter of John Rees Stokes of Cuffern, died 1800 and 1794, oval, marble with urn. On N side alabaster and mosaic plaques to members of the families of Lord and Lady St Davids, early C20. Large marble shield plaque to S. Meredith, d1820, by Williams of St Florence.
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