Church of St David is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 March 1998. Church.

Church of St David

WRENN ID
mired-flagstone-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 March 1998
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St David is a small, simple church built in the Early English style. It consists of a nave, chancel, porch, and bellcote, with a unique layout where the chancel is located at the west end and the bellcote and porch at the east end. The church is constructed from roughly coursed red and cream masonry, sitting on a plinth and topped with a slate roof. It features stone dressings and raised stone copings on the gables, with a continuous string course along the chancel and south nave. The nave has angle buttresses, while the chancel has diagonal buttresses. The pointed-arched windows are adorned with transomed Y-tracery and diamond quarries, all set beneath stone heads with voussoirs.

On the south side of the nave, there are three windows separated by buttresses, while the north side has two windows flanking a small lean-to that includes a 20th-century planked door. Above the lean-to is a truncated masonry stack, and there is currently a steel flue in the roof pitch, covered in asbestos-cement slates. The bellcote is positioned on the east gable of the nave. The chancel is narrower and lower than the nave, flanked by small lean-tos with hipped roofs. The south lean-to features a planked door with a four-pane window to the left, while the north lean-to has a boarded window. The west window of the chancel is a three-light window.

The porch is located at the east end and has a doorway with a segmental arched head and planked doors, along with a small window on the south side. Butt joints on the north and south walls likely indicate blocked doorways that were used before the church was licensed for burials.

Inside, the church has a simple layout with a narrow pointed chancel arch that has chamfers and is topped with a hood-mould. The chancel window contains stained glass, and the roof features a simple collar truss design. There are wooden pews in the southwest corner of the nave, which have moulded armrests. Small marble memorials commemorate those who died in World War I and World War II. A plaque notes that the bellcote was rebuilt in 1989 in memory of Richard David Evans, and the porch has a scissor-braced roof.

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