Church of St David is a Grade I listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 July 1951. A C15 Church.
Church of St David
- WRENN ID
- drifting-sentry-candle
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1951
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St David is an Anglican parish church constructed from rubble stone, featuring ashlar tracery and slate roofs. It is a small-scale building that includes a 15th-century West tower in the Pembrokeshire style, along with a low medieval nave and chancel, all of which are stone vaulted. In 1930, two transepts were added: the northern transept has a symmetrical flanking porch and vestry, while the southern transept includes an organ chamber to the east.
The tower features 1930 tracery in a small west window, a northwest stair projection, a corbelled parapet, and a pyramid recessed cap. It has small unchamfered two-light bell openings. The nave contains two-light windows on the north and south sides, which also feature 1930 flush tracery. There is a blocked unchamfered pointed door on the south side, and the 1930 additions include coped shouldered gables, flush treceried two-light transept windows, and plain chamfered pointed doors leading to the porch and vestry. The chancel has a 15th-century perpendicular style south window and a three-light east window, pointed with a hoodmould and carved head stops.
Inside, the church has plastered pointed vaults and a fine square 13th-century font with a scalloped lower edge and an incised line above the scalloping, supported by a circular plain shaft. The chancel features a north tomb recess and an impressive 15th-century triple sedilia with octagonal shafts that lack capitals but have carved masks on the two front faces of the shafts, all beneath an elaborately moulded triple-arched hoodmould. There is a low pointed north door leading to the vestry, and early 18th-century tomb slabs belonging to the Allen family of Gelliswick are located under the altar.
The church also boasts a fine 20th-century triple arch timber chancel screen with delicate cresting and tracery, with the side bays serving as a canted-fronted pulpit and reading desk. Additional features include early 20th-century reeded panelling and faded east window glass from around 1881. Stained glass from 1980 is present in the south transept, while the south window of the nave features stained glass from around 1960.
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