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

Church of St Peter

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

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Description

The Church of St Peter is an Early English style church dating from the 13th century, comprising a nave, a lower and narrower chancel, a west tower, a south porch, and a north vestry. The church is built of rubble stone with steep slate roofs, featuring overhanging eaves behind coped gables with moulded kneelers. The south porch has a two-centred doorway with a continuous chamfer and hood mould. Inside, the south door to the nave has a single order of nook shafts, a two-centred arch and hood with foliage stops, leading to double boarded doors with strap hinges. To the right of the porch are two pairs of cusped lights, and a deep buttress to the southeast angle. The chancel has three cusped windows in the south wall, and a three-light east window with geometrical tracery and a hood mould. On the north side is a single cusped window and the vestry. The vestry has a two-centred doorway with a hood mould in its east wall, with a boarded door, and a two-light plate-tracery north window with a hood mould and head stops. A later pebble-dashed lean-to has been added to the west side. The north wall of the nave has three pairs of cusped lights. A grave slab to Morgan Rees (died 1805) is attached to the wall to the right of centre. The north and south walls of the nave have straight vertical joints at the west end, indicating the earlier fabric of the tower.

The three-stage tower is battered at the base and incorporates a higher square northeast turret. The west door has a two-centred head with rubble voussoirs, and double boarded doors with strap hinges. The west window is a two-light square-headed 16th century window with round-headed lights, sunk spandrels with a hood mould. Above it, the second stage has a narrow loop, with similar loops to the north and south walls, while the belfry has a small two-light opening in each face with slate louvres. A plain coped parapet projects on a corbel table.

The nave has a roof with closely spaced arched braces on a moulded cornice. The tower arch is pointed and plastered, and the tower has a plastered pointed tunnel vault. The moulded two-centred chancel arch is on corbels and has an outer order of continuous chamfer and a hood mould. The keeled wagon roof to the chancel has a moulded cornice, ribs, and boarded panels. The vestry doorway in the north wall is cusped and has a boarded door. The east window has a shafted rere arch with annulets and a hood mould. The central aisle, chancel, and sanctuary are laid with decorative tiles.

The octagonal font, dated 1933, is in a late Perpendicular style with a panelled stem and relief carvings around the bowl. The simple benches and the polygonal pulpit with open Gothic panels date from 1884-5. The choir stalls have open-arcaded fronts and moulded ends. The simple communion rail has turned balusters and a moulded wooden rail.

The east window depicts Christ with Saints Peter and Paul, by A K Nicholson of London, after 1921.

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