Church of St Lucia is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 April 2008. Church.
Church of St Lucia
- WRENN ID
- fading-spire-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 April 2008
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Lucia, Abernant
- OS grid reference
- SN 339 231
- Coordinates
- 51.88178, -4.41412
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Lucia is a building constructed of grey stone with slate roofs. It features a nave and a lower chancel, along with a west belcote and a porch, and a vestry located on the north side. At the west end, there is a double belcote, and the gabled porch includes a doorway with boarded doors that have strap hinges, as well as an additional doorway on the left return.
On the north side, there are no windows in the nave except for a small lancet situated next to the vestry, which has a hipped roof and a three-light window facing north. To the left of the vestry is a cusped lancet window leading to the chancel, and further left, there is a slate monument set into the wall. The chancel has a two-light east window and an old cusped window on the south side. The south side of the nave features two 19th-century two-light windows with quatrefoils, separated by a stepped buttress.
Inside, the church has 19th-century boarded roofs. Above the chancel arch, there are corbels for a rood beam and a squint on the south side of the arch. The floor is adorned with polychrome tiles, and in the chancel, there is an altar rail with iron scrolling on the posts. The font is square and may date back to the 12th or 13th century. The church also contains wall monuments from the 18th century, as well as early and late 19th-century memorials.
Local climate
Church of St Lucia sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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