Church of St David is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 June 1967. Church.

Church of St David

WRENN ID
second-clay-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 June 1967
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

A simple Early-English style church comprising nave and chancel under a single roof, W porch and N vestry. Of rubble stone, and slate roof behind coped gable to the W end, with overhanging eaves and W bellcote. The S wall is battered, while the remaining walls are battered only at the base. The S wall has a central 2-light geometrical window, a single-light window to the L and small cusped light to the chancel on the R. The E window, of 1891-2, comprises 3 stepped lights. The N vestry, under an outshut roof with tall octagonal stone stack to the E side, has a 2-light square-headed W window. On the E side of the vestry is a lean-to coal shed beneath a single chancel light with shallow trefoil head. Otherwise the N wall has only a single small square-headed light towards the E end. The porch is of snecked stone with timber-framing to the gable. The W door has a single ovolo moulding, hood mould, and double boarded doors. Over the porch is a single lancet. The gabled bellcote has a round-headed opening for a single bell.

Nave and chancel have a continuous roof of closely-spaced rafters with collars and diagonal struts. A C19 rood beam marks the separation of nave from chancel. In the nave N wall is a doorway to the vestry and a doorway at higher level to its R, both medieval and giving access via stairs to the medieval rood loft.

The square font bowl is medieval and retains its lead lining, but stands on a C20 stone pedestal and base. Plain pews were installed in 1891, as was the polygonal pulpit with blind panels below open cusped ogee arches. The wooden communion rail is on twisted brass balusters.

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