Church of Saint Cadoc

Church of Saint Cadoc

Anglican parish church built of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with red terracotta ridges, alternately crested. The 14th-century tower survives, while the rest of the building retains medieval masonry with some rebuilding and all architectural detail dating from 1889. The nave and chancel are basically medieval in plan, with north and south chapels and a south porch mostly rebuilt in 1889. The church displays a simple Decorated style throughout.

The west tower is unbuttressed with a battered plinth and corbelled embattled parapet, restored in 1894. It contains one late medieval two-light flat-headed window with arch-headed lights on the north side, possibly of the 16th century. Late 19th-century features include a west door, north and south single-light windows, and two-light square-headed bell-chamber openings with hoodmoulds. A datestone beneath the south bell-light reads "D.MT / IM 1694 / EI. DW?"

The main body of the church has coped gables with kneelers and cross finials. Windows are mostly of 1889, featuring two-light geometric tracery with quatrefoils and hoodmoulds. The nave south wall has one window left of the porch and two to the right; the nave north wall has three windows, with a buttress between the first and second and a stepped wall between the second and third. The porch is late 19th-century with low angle buttresses, a pointed arch with hoodmould, and trefoil-headed side windows. The north and south transepts have battered base walls and three-light late 19th-century end windows with quatrefoils in the head, hoodmoulds, and red sandstone voussoirs. The chancel has similar two-light windows to north and south, and a large three-light east end window with quatrefoils and trefoils in the head, with red sandstone voussoirs. The chancel south wall bears a plaque to John Jones, Officer of Excise, died 1780. The south transept west wall displays plaques to Anna Jenkins (died 1828) and Anne Davies (died 1786).

Interior

The walls are plastered. The nave has a later 19th-century boarded pointed roof with moulded ribs on corbels, spanning 15 bays. The tower has a later 19th-century segmental pointed arch and no vault; the west doorcase is also later 19th-century. The chancel arch is of the later 19th century, supported on corbelled short columns with a similar chancel roof but with a cornice. The transept arches are segmental-pointed.

The south transept contains a late 19th-century organ in a Gothic case. The font is late medieval, octagonal with chamfered lower section becoming square with broached angles. A stone pulpit of 1889 has Gothic panels. Later 19th-century pews remain in the nave, while chancel furnishings date to around 1960.

Stained Glass

The nave north second window by Kempe & Co (1923) commemorates Mr and Mrs T Richards. The nave north fifth window by R J Newbery (c1920) commemorates W N Lewis of Cefngornoeth. The nave south third window by R J Newbery commemorates J Lewis of Dolgau (died 1896). The chancel north and south windows by R J Newbery commemorate St Vincent Peel of Danyrallt (died 1901), while the chancel east window (1899, also by R J Newbery) commemorates J and C Peel.

Monuments

The nave south wall bears a fine Baroque memorial to Thomas Lloyd of Danyrallt (1727) with three cherub heads and an armorial plaque. The nave west wall contains a neo-Grec marble memorial to David Lloyd Harries of Llandingat House (died 1855).

The north transept west wall displays a marble memorial to Anna M Lloyd of Glansevin (died 1738) with an armorial plaque and panelled pilasters, and a marble sarcophagus and urn to Margaretta Hughes of Tregib (died 1867) by J Williams of Llandeilo. A plain plaque commemorates Edward Pryse Lloyd of Glansevin (died 1766). The north wall bears a plaque with lilies to Caroline Pryse Lloyd (died 1839) by Lewis of Cheltenham. The north wall east also displays a fine marble memorial to Catherine Pryse Lloyd (died 1852) with a couple ascending to heaven and a cherub holding a crown, by J E Thomas, and a Gothic memorial in three colours to Catherine Davies (died 1870).

The south transept east wall has plaques, partly obscured by the organ, commemorating the Lloyds of Danyrallt, including Admiral William Lloyd (died 1796) by T King of Bath, with marble and urn. The south transept west wall bears a plaque to Thomas Lloyd (died 1672).