Church of St Illtyd is a Grade II* listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 September 1986. House.

Church of St Illtyd

WRENN ID
stony-chalk-hyssop
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 September 1986
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Coursed and bull-nosed rubble masonry, freestone dressings, gable parapets crucifix finials and eaves courses; slate roofs, cylindrical chimney to vestry. Corbelled and crenellated tower parapet with crocketed finials, grotesques and SE angle stair turret. Paired bell stage openings with Tudor hood moulds; similar window over W entrance. Curved sided triangle window beside nook shafted SW porch. 2-light Y-tracery and impaled trefoil windows to N and S, except to N nave aisle which has similar single light windows. 3-light E windows with intersecting and impaled trefoil tracery.

Churchyard which retains 1st World War Memorial with the crucifixion is entered through lychgate donated in 1910 by Samuel Llewellyn of Coed Parc.

Rendered interior with freestone dressings; open timber roofs, boarded and with ornate wall plate to chancel. Chamfered nave arcade with head stops, carried on octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Stopped base to tower arch with Gothic screen and plaster ceiled tower chamber. Heavily foliated capitals and corbel shafts to inner order of chancel arch; similar arches to vestry, W and S sides. Chancel retains C14 piscina and sedilia with crocketed gable canopies. 1894 Gothic reredos and choir stalls with carved fish by Clarke of Llandaff. Window surrounds and monuments fron original chancel are retained in Victorian vestry; double cusped and crocketed ogee rere arches to N side; many C17/C18 and C19 wall monuments, two with semicircular hoods and flanked by free standing columns, one of which is to Philip Gamage, died 1675.

Tower chamber retains 3 important medieval C11/C12 tombstones, heavily worn.

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