Church of St David, Llanfaes is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 May 1961. Church.

Church of St David, Llanfaes

WRENN ID
lunar-wattle-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 May 1961
Type
Church
Address
Church of St David, Llanfaes, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 037 283
Coordinates
51.94495, -3.40112
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St David in Llanfaes is a Grade II listed building constructed from grey-brown stone with bathstone dressings. It features a west tower topped with a small spire, a nave, aisles, a north porch, a north chapel, and an organ loft, along with a vestry or former school located on the south side of the tower. The church was built in 1859 in a decorated style, with some early 20th-century work in a generally Perpendicular style. The stone spire is adorned with banding, and the crenellated tower has paired lights at the bell-stage, diagonal buttresses, and a west doorway with a small window above.

The nave consists of four bays with three-light Perpendicular clerestorey windows and two-light Decorated aisle windows. There is a gabled porch supported by angle buttresses. To the west, there is a two-storey block featuring a two-light Decorated window above lancets and a polygonal stair turret. The east window is five-light with curvilinear tracery. On the south side of the tower, the two-storey vestry block has three windows and a slate roof with a chimney on the right. The first floor includes a single-light window on the left and two two-light windows, while the ground floor has a doorway on the left and two windows matching those above. On the north side of the chancel, there are two three-light Perpendicular windows, and the lower vestry block has windows with cusped lights.

Inside, the nave has arcades of broad pointed arches that spring directly from polygonal piers, leading to an open timber roof. The chancel features a marble floor and an organ loft to the north, with 20th-century choir stalls. A rood beam with vine foliage displays a Crucifixion flanked by the Virgin and St John. On the northeast wall of the tower, there is a late 18th-century memorial tablet dedicated to Elinor Jones, "Eldest daughter of Theopilus Evans later Vicar of this Parish and of Llangamarch," along with other members of the Jones family.

Local climate

Church of St David, Llanfaes sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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