Church of St Barnabas is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 February 1999. Church.

Church of St Barnabas

WRENN ID
under-lead-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 February 1999
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Barnabas is an Anglican church built in a severe Early English Gothic style, featuring crazed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. It has a cruciform plan, with a south porch and a northeast vestry that projects from the north transept. The building showcases coped shouldered gables, cross finials on the porch, nave, and chancel, as well as moulded ashlar eaves. The west end includes a three-light window with a hoodmould and an ashlar bellcote that has a pointed arch, side piers, and mouldings around the impost and plinth. A fish weathervane adorns the top.

The nave features a gabled south porch with a chamfered pointed arch, hoodmould, and plain capitals, leading to a pointed inner south door. To the right, there are two high-set lancets. The north side of the nave mirrors this with three lancets, all equipped with hoodmoulds. The transepts have similar two-light end windows with roundels in their heads and hoodmoulds. A diagonal squint links the south transept and chancel, featuring a pair of small lancets and a sill band. The chancel has a moulded sill band that steps under three east lancets, with a single lancet on the south and north sides.

A short gabled vestry is positioned between the chancel and north transept, featuring an ashlar two-light east window similar to those on the transepts, with a sill band that extends to a pointed door on the north wall adjacent to the transept. There is a curious three-sided projection with an ashlar roof that connects the chancel's north door to the vestry's east door.

Inside, the church has plastered walls and rafter roofs, with some arch bracing in the chancel. The pointed chancel arch has plain imposts, and the transept arches are also plain. The nave contains a font for total immersion located in the southwest corner, which is a fine whitewashed decagonal structure with a moulded rim and instepped underside, supported by ten attached columns. The pulpit features a five-sided front with Gothic panels. The chancel has a tiled floor with two ornate tiles displaying the Cawdor arms, and the stalls have traceried blank panels. There is a north pointed door leading into a curved link to the vestry, and the altar rails are supported by four wrought-iron Y-shaped uprights. A seat is located in the south window embrasure, and the east window has detached columns with ringed shafts. A blank segmental-pointed recess on the north wall echoes the arch on the south wall leading to the squint.

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