Church of Saint Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 June 1971. Workers house.
Church of Saint Mary
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1971
- Type
- Workers house
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Parish church, rubble stone with imitation slates, and red terracotta crested ridge tiles to main roof. Single roof to nave and chancel, lower S transept and N gabled vestry lower still. Coped shouldered gables. Thin plain rubble W tower with no detail apart from rough single bell openings blocked in brick. Flat parapet with moulded coping stones spaced to give appearance of battlements. Wrought iron support for weathervane. Tower projects slightly from W end and has late C19 pointed W door with cusped head, and renewed door with C19 hinges. Rest of church has I880 windows, ashlar cusped lancets: 2-light to nave S at left, stepped 3-light to transept S, single light to chancel S and N. Nave N has two 2-lights. E window is 3-light pointed with hoodmould and simple cusped heads to each light. N vestry has Caernarfon arch to E door and single light to N.
Plastered walls, seven-sided rafter roof to nave. W wall has projecting inner side of tower with pointed doorway and earlier C19 double panelled doors. Chamfered pointed heads to nave window reveals. Plastered pointed arch into S transept, which has boarded rafter roof. Caernarfon-arched N doorway to vestry. Later C19 chancel arch with double-chamfer pointed arch and hoodmould, the inner arch carried on moulded corbelled capitals. One step to chancel with tiled floor, 5-sided boarded panelled roof and segmental-pointed head to E window reveal. One step to sanctuary. Fittings: Octagonal ashlar C19 font with IHS monogramme, moulded underside, marble round shaft and moulded base. Pine pews. Wrought iron and brass altar rail. Oak traceried altar table. Oak traceried reading desk, no pulpit. Memorials: Oval marble plaque to William Lewis of Bwlchyclawdd (d 1723) and Jenett his wife (d 1721), with good lettering; oval plaque to Henry Bulkeley of Temple Druid (d 1821) with coloured lettering; rectangular plaque to Rev John Foley (d 1832) with similar lettering; engraved brass plaque to Edward Cropper (d 1877) and his son Edward, killed 1900; marble plaque to Ida Walters (d 1895). Stained glass: E window SS Mary, Joseph and John, c. 1950. Incised stones: Two incised stones from the churchyard of the ruined church of St Teilo, Llandeilo Llwydiarth. One reads 'Andagell- iacit fili Cavet-', with a later added incised cross, the other 'Coimagni fili Caveti'.
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