Church of St David is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 January 1956. Church.

Church of St David

WRENN ID
bitter-ember-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 January 1956
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Built of rock faced red sandstone walling with small roughly cut Welsh slates. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, organ chamber (originally vestry) to north of chancel, sexton's store next to the tower (enlarged 1970). The nave was rebuilt on the foundations of the previous church but both the chancel and the porch were extended. Decorated style.

The south wall has a tall steeply gabled porch with pointed arch with quatrefoil above, and 2-bay roof within. The dripmould over the arch continues as a string course to the sides. The nave wall has a large 3-light window with interlace tracery and dripmould over, to the right of this a stepped buttress. The chancel has a single light and a 2-light window with trefoil heads and a quatrefoil above to the larger one. These sit on a string course which goes round the east end and supports a similar 3-light window.

The north wall of the chancel is covered by a projecting gabled organ chamber with single light windows in the flanks and a 2-light as before in the gable. This is flanked by strip buttresses added in 1970. The nave has a single light and a 2-light window as before. The sexton's store with lean-to roof is in the angle between nave and tower. This has a pointed arch doorway in the west wall.

The tower is random stonework with more carefully dressed quoins. Pointed arch window above a blocked-in door. Small window above this, slits above this on each face, then a string course, and then the tower rises higher but is diminished. The bell stage has small pointed openings except the east wall which has a larger square one which is probably C17. Castellated parapet from 1880.

The interior is wholly Victorian. Arch braced collar beam roof of 4 bays to nave, wagon roof to chancel. All fittings and furniture date from 1880 except for the partly Norman font, and a late medieval incised grave slab. Minton floor tiles in the chancel. Brightly coloured panelled pulpit with curved brass candlesticks. Royal Arms of Queen Victoria on the west wall of the nave. The east window is a memorial to Crawshay Bailey junior (1841-1887). Two iron tie beams were put across the chancel in 1967.

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