Church of St Ffraid aka St Bride, Llansantffraid is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 July 1963. A C19 Church.
Church of St Ffraid aka St Bride, Llansantffraid
- WRENN ID
- other-nave-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1963
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Ffraid, also known as St Bride, is a small, low church constructed of stone rubble with ashlar dressings and snecked dressed stone on the north aisle. The main roof is covered with machine tiles, while the porch features stone tiles and apex cruciform finials. The church has a plan that includes a nave with a west bellcote, a long north aisle, a south porch, and a lower, narrower chancel. Most of the windows have been renewed, featuring two trefoil-headed lights with geometric tracery and hoodmoulds.
The south porch has wide ashlar coping with kneelers and a sundial above the plain round-arched south doorway. Inside the porch, there are stone seats and flags, along with one moulded arch-braced truss, a ridge beam, a trenched purlin, and a vertically panelled south door. The nave has windows on either side of the porch and a wide shallow buttress at the southeast corner. The chancel includes a single light south window and an unrestored window with two cusped lights in a square-headed frame, featuring a wide chamfered mullion. There is a hollow chamfered pointed arched priest's door with a vertically panelled door, and a two-light east window.
The north aisle has an unusual east pointed arched entrance with voussoirs and a hoodmould, and a battered stepped buttress separates the nave and chancel. The windows in the aisle have narrow lights, and the west window consists of two lights. The church stands in a large churchyard, which has been lowered in some areas, as indicated by the mounds where older yews are located. The entrance to the churchyard features an iron archway and double gates.
Inside, the nave has a 19th-century north arcade with three bays and moulded pointed arches, and the windows have very wide embrasures. The nave's roof is arch-braced with a low ridge beam and heavy trenched purlins, and it features a 19th-century barrel roof with moulded principal ribs. The font is medieval, consisting of a plain bowl with a single roll mould on a low stem. The chancel arch is simple and pointed, with two orders that die into the walls. To the right, there is a medieval quatrefoil-headed shallow niche with fragments of medieval moulded stone used as an altar below, and to the left, a group of two simple 17th- to 18th-century wall monuments. A similar black-painted local monument is located to the northwest. The chancel has a 19th-century roof, and the east window features stained glass from 1899, along with an 18th-century wall monument in the northeast.
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