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
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St David, Llanycrwys
- OS grid reference
- SN 645 453
- Coordinates
- 52.08956, -3.97895
- 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.
Local climate
Church of St David sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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