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
- ruined-brick-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1967
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St David is a simple Early-English style church dating from the medieval period. It consists of a nave and chancel under a single roof, with a west porch and a north vestry. The church is built of rubble stone and features a slate roof with a coped gable at the west end, overhanging eaves, and a west bellcote. The south wall is battered, while the other walls are only battered at the base.
On the south wall, there is a central two-light geometrical window, a single-light window to the left, and a small cusped light to the chancel on the right. The east window, dating from 1891-1892, has three stepped lights. The north vestry has an outshut roof and a tall octagonal stone stack on the east side, with a two-light square-headed window on the west. Adjacent to the vestry is a lean-to coal shed beneath a single chancel light with a shallow trefoil head. The north wall of the vestry has only a small square-headed light towards the east end.
The porch is constructed of snecked stone with timber-framing in the gable. The west door features a single ovolo moulding, a hood mould, and double boarded doors, with a single lancet window above the porch. The gabled bellcote has a round-headed opening for a single bell.
Inside, the nave and chancel share a continuous roof supported by closely spaced rafters with collars and diagonal struts. A 19th-century rood beam separates the nave from the chancel. In the north wall of the nave, there is a medieval doorway leading to the vestry and another medieval doorway at a higher level to the right, providing access via stairs to the medieval rood loft.
The square font bowl is medieval and retains its lead lining, though it stands on a 20th-century stone pedestal and base. Plain pews were installed in 1891, along with a polygonal pulpit featuring blind panels below open cusped ogee arches. The wooden communion rail is supported by twisted brass balusters.
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