Church of St. Owain is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 2004. Church.

Church of St. Owain

WRENN ID
roaming-jamb-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 April 2004
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Built of local blue lias limestone rubble, carefully coursed and squared, with Bath stone dressings and Welsh slate roofs; internally the church is faced in multi-coloured brick. Nave, chancel, south porch, west tower and north vestry and meeting room. Late C13 style. The nave is in three bays with a tall gabled porch in the centre. This has a pointed arch door with a dripmould, blind return walls, coped gables and apex cross. The porch is flanked by a trefoil headed lancet on the left and a 2-light Early English window on the right with trefoil in the head. Eaves brackets, coped gables, apex cross on the east gable. Lower chancel with roof details as before, plain 2-light window. East gable has a 3-light window with a circular cinquefoil in the head. The north wall has a small vestry with a tall medieval style chimney. Attached beyond this is a gabled meeting room in like manner and built of the same materials, 3-light window in the gable with lancets to the long wall. The north wall of the nave has three trefoil headed lancets as before and a Caernarvon headed doorway into the tower. Lights to the tower stairs in the west gable. Two stage tower with battered base. Two-light west window with quatrefoil head. Tall louvred openings on the east and west faces and and 2-light opening on the south face. Tall gabled saddleback roof with ridge cross.

The interior is very unaltered apart from the painting over of the patterned brick walls. All the furnishings are contemporary and complete. Octagonal font with pinnacled cover under the tower, which apparently comes from Llanbradach and therefore is from 1896-7. Plain chancel and tower arches with chamfer dying into the jamb. Arch-braced collar beam roofs, 3-bay to nave and 2-bay to chancel. One memorial survives from the previous church. Good grisaille glass in the east window.

Detailed Attributes

Structured analysis including materials, construction techniques, architect attribution, and related listed building consent applications. Sign in or create a free account to view.

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.