Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 April 1952. Bridge.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
under-glass-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 April 1952
Type
Bridge
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building featuring an apsidal Lady Chapel, a wide ambulatory, and vestries connected to the transepts. The church has a tall chancel and nave with aisles, as well as north and south porches. A tall south tower is attached to the south transept. The structure is built of snecked rubble with freestone dressings and slate roofs, while the aisles have copper roofing. The gable parapets are adorned with cross finials, and corner buttresses are present, except for the Lady Chapel.

The eastern façade features a five-light window under a hoodmould, flanked by turrets, with simple chamfered lancets below on the blind east wall. The chancel has plate tracery, while the north transept showcases Perpendicular windows. The nave has paired lancets set between pilaster buttresses. The entrance is located under the south tower, which has battlemented parapets and a southwest stair. It includes two-light bell-openings and nook shafts leading to a pointed doorway. The gabled south porch, with a foundation stone dated 1896, features a depiction of Christ in a mandorla and foliage paterae above the arched entrance, which has a glazed fanlight. The plain west gable has four lancets, and the tympanum of the triple-order west door displays Christ with symbols of the four Evangelists.

Inside, the apsidal east chapel has a low ribbed ceiling and diagonal strainer arches at the corners. The east lancets are treated with arches, and there is a heavy stringcourse with paterae, along with a three-bay arcade below. The eastern bays of the arcades are screened, and there are elaborate stepped Geometric sedilia. The organ is positioned in the south transept arch, with a screen to the north; there is no chancel screen. The open timber roof features collar beams and hammerbeams at the wall-head, supported by arched braces. The six-bay nave has a collar and tie-beam roof, arched braces, round columns, and chamfered arcades, with transverse arches leading to the aisles.

Among the older furnishings are a damaged 14th-century effigy of a lady located in the north transept and a brass from around 1510 depicting a knight and lady on the north side of the altar.

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