Parish Church of St David is a Grade II* listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 January 1989. Chapel.
Parish Church of St David
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 January 1989
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Parish Church of St David is a late 18th century, Perpendicular Gothic composition, displaying group value. The west front features a tall, four-light pointed window with geometric tracery and a hood mould. Stepped buttresses are incorporated into a lean-to west porch, which has an open cusped arcade. Cusped single-light aisle windows are present along with a miniature arcade to the parapet. Further external features include stepped buttresses, pinnacles, and a plinth. A gabled south porch has a double pointed arch entrance with compound shafts. A mouchete depicting St David is set within a tympanum carved with foliage. Clasping buttresses flank two-light windows on the sides. A pointed inner door provides access. The tall clerestory contains two-light plate tracery windows.
Gabled transepts include a three-light plate window, a pierced disc sill band, and stepped angle buttresses, with two small windows to the sides. A lean-to east vestry is attached to the north transept. A five-stage, rectangular "Rhenish" tower rises prominently. It is distinguished by irregular stressed quoins and an ashlar top storey resting on corbels; tripartite windows mark a central turret, complemented by corner bartizans linked by gabled clock faces. Pinnacled roofs are topped by ironwork weathervanes. Banded pointed arches frame the plate traceried louvres of the bell stage, alongside impost and sill bands. Three slit-like windows are set into the second storey, beneath a tablet bearing the inscription "VAUGHAN TOWER". A narrow lancet window appears in the first storey, linked by a banded relieving arch and a ramped clasping buttress. A pointed south door provides access.
The chancel is apsidal, featuring nine, two-light plate tracery windows, accompanied by a trefoil sill band.
The interior is constructed with exuberant red brick, enriched by broad decorative bands of blue brick ‘diaper’ work, and freestone dressings. Alternating round and composite arcade piers, topped with foliate capitals, rise to pointed banded arches, with continuous hoodmoulds. A string course and impost band support nookshafts to the clerestory, mirroring the detail of the west window. The roof is arch braced, with iron tension bars. Alternating trusses are cusped with truncated colonettes perched on corbels. Tall banded arches, on truncated double colonettes with corbels, define the transepts, and are similar in detail to the chancel arch. Rear arches, featuring colonettes, frame the apse windows, which exhibit deep cusping to the roof. A pointed organ recess is situated in the north wall, below a stone medallion displaying Christian emblems.
Contemporary fittings include a stone pulpit with marble colonettes, a table font, pews, chair stalls, and glass by Clayton, Bell and Company within the apse.
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