Church of Saint Ciwg is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 March 2003. Church.
Church of Saint Ciwg
- WRENN ID
- graven-glass-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 March 2003
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of Saint Ciwg is an Anglican parish church built from rubble stone, featuring a short west tower, nave, and chancel all under a single roof covered with imitation slates. The church has a south porch. The tower is very plain, with a square plan, a leaning west wall, and rubble battlements just above the roof ridge. It has small louvred slots on the south and north sides, various put-log holes on the north side, and a pointed south door framed with stone voussoirs. The stonework at the south joint to the nave indicates that the tower was added to an existing west wall. There are projecting stones on the east side that align with the roof line.
The church features pointed two-light sandstone ashlar Y-tracery windows, which likely replaced smaller-paned windows from 1812. There is one window to the left of the porch and two to the right, followed by a chancel door with another window to the right. The chancel door has a plain pointed ashlar frame and voussoirs. The porch has a slate roof and a pointed entry with stone voussoirs, leading to a pointed inner door with 19th-century double board doors. A stoup is located in the right corner, along with stone seats. The west porch wall displays stone with two incised crosses and a plaque commemorating R. Thomas, who died in 1713. The north wall, which has no windows, features a blocked medieval window towards the west end, with one jamb and two parts of a roughly curved head. The east window is similar to the south windows and there is a small rectangular opening low down to the right on the east wall. The south tower and chancel doors are framed with boarded surrounds.
A plaque to the left of the chancel south door states: "This church was new roofed and considerably altered AD 1812," along with the names of the churchwardens.
The interior is not available for inspection, but it includes a medieval heavy drum font with a raised band around its lower edge, panelled pews, later 19th-century iron altar rails, and an ashlar drum pulpit pierced with paired lancets, which is accessed by winding timber stairs and a rail. There are stone steps leading to the sanctuary and 20th-century chancel panelling. The east window, dated around 1898, features the theme "Feed my sheep." Additionally, there is a 19th-century pine vestry enclosure in the southwest corner.
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