Church of Saint Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 April 2001. Church.
Church of Saint Mary
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 April 2001
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of Saint Mary is a 19th-century church constructed from rubble stone with slate roofs, featuring coped shouldered gables and cross finials. The structure includes a nave, chancel, south porch, and south vestry, along with a west bellcote and a small sanctus bellcote on the east end of the nave. The windows are all 19th-century ashlar with stone voussoirs, consisting of plain uncusped lancets in the nave, three on the south side, and two on the north. The west wall has a battered base and a 19th-century two-light pointed west window with cusped Y-tracery and a hood. Above this window is the bellcote for two bells, featuring a coped gable. The south nave has one window to the left and two to the right of the porch, which has a rough cambered-headed entry and a 19th-century roof. The chancel's south vestry has a gabled two-light window that breaks the eaves, with two cusped lancet lights. The chancel itself has a small cusped south window, a two-light east window with a quatrefoil head, and two small cusped lancets on the north.
Inside, the church has a plastered interior with open roofs. The nave roof features Tudor-arched braces supporting low collar trusses that are closely spaced. The chancel arch, added in 1896, is plastered, plain chamfered, and pointed, flanked by two lancet squints. There is a fine 12th to 13th-century square scalloped font that transitions to a round shaft below. The pulpit, made in 1897, has traceried open panels, and the church contains oak pews and an eagle lectern. The chancel features a collar rafter roof with angle bracing, an open lean-to vestry to the south, and a shallow cambered-headed wall recess on the north. The oak stalls and matching reading desks were also made in 1897. There is one step to the sanctuary, which has four cast-iron standards for the rails, featuring twisted posts and scrolls. The sanctuary is adorned with encaustic tiles, a panelled east wall, and a reredos that includes an inset white marble carved depiction of the Last Supper from 1920. The east window features stained glass from 1920 by Mary Lowndes, depicting Christ and soldiers in an Arts and Crafts style with rich colours and much opaque glass. The nave's north window features St Michael, created around 1920, while the south window depicts an angel at the tomb, dating to 1898 and signed by A L Moore of London. There is patterned glass from the 1850s in other windows, including the west window.
Memorials include a plaque at the west end for Ann Morgan, who died in 1819, a south plaque with a crude cherub head for John Higgon (died 1732), George Higgon (died 1736), and Ann Higgon (died 1747), as well as a framed double plaque from around 1837 for the Higgon family. In the porch, there is an important inscribed stone from the 5th to 6th century, inscribed with "EVALI FILI DENCV- CVNIOVENDE MATER EIUS."
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