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
ancient-clay-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 May 1961
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Grey-brown stone with bathstone dressings. West tower with small spire, nave, aisles, N porch, N chapel and organ loft; vestry or former school on S side of tower. The 1859 fabric in decorated style; early C20 work generally Perpendicular style. Stone spire with banding. Crenellated tower with paired lights to bell-stage; diagonal buttresses; W doorway with small window above. Four-bay nave with 3-light Perpendicular clerestorey windows; 2-light Decorated aisle windows; gabled porch with angle buttresses. To left (W), 2-storey block with 2-light Decorated window over lancets; polygonal stair turret. Five-light E window with curvilinear tracery. On S side of tower, 2-storey, 3-window vestry block; slate roof with chimney to R; windows with shouldered heads. On first floor, a single-light window to L, and two-2-light windows. On ground floor, doorway to L, and 2 windows as above. To N side of chancel, two 3-light Perpendicular windows; lower vestry block has windows with cusped lights.

Four-bay nave arcades of broad pointed arches springing directly from polygonal piers, open timber roof. Chancel with marble floor and with organ loft to N; C20 choir stalls. Rood beam with vine foliage and Crucifixion flanked by Virgin and SDt john. Against the NE wall of the tower there is a late C18 memorial tablet to Elinor Jones, "Eldest daughter of Theopilus Evans later Vicar of this Parish and of Llangamarch", and to other members of the Jones family.

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