Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 January 1952. House.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
woven-tin-indigo
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 January 1952
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building featuring a west tower, a nave, and a chancel that are not divided, along with side aisles that have separate gabled roofs. The church is primarily constructed of grey rubble stone with tiled roofs, while the tower is made of coursed red sandstone. The chancel has a window with five cinquefoil lights and a transom, along with four lights above the transom. Each side wall has a window with two cinquefoil-headed lights. The east end of the south aisle features a window with three trefoil-headed lights and a doorway to the right. The south wall of the south aisle, from east to west, includes a restored window with two trefoil-headed lights, a restored window with three lancet-headed lights, two restored windows with two lancet-headed lights each, and a small gabled porch with a stone arch and a wooden door that has cover strips, studs, and large hinges. Above the porch is a square-headed window with two trefoil-headed lights. There is also a tall window with two trefoil-headed lights and a similar window at the west end of the south aisle. The west end of the north aisle has two trefoil-headed lights. The north elevation of the north aisle, from west to east, includes a gabled porch built in 1889 and four windows with two trefoil-headed lights, some of which date from the 19th century. The east end of the south aisle features a Decorated window with three lights.

The battlemented west tower, made of red sandstone, has three stages, an octagonal northwest stair turret, and diagonal buttresses, with three-light Perpendicular windows in the upper two stages. The south porch retains its 15th-century roof with arch-braces and a quatrefoil ceiling. Inside, the church has mid-19th-century open-truss wagon roofs and exposed stone walls. The nave and chancel are unified, while the aisles have arches of varying sizes and periods. One circular pier in the north arcade features a large scalloped 12th-century capital. There is a piscina in the south aisle, an early 15th-century octagonal stoup with clustered shafts, and a late 14th-century altar on the west pilaster of the south arcade. Near the entrance from High Street, there is a coffin lid adorned with a foliate cross.

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