Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 January 1963. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Andrew

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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 January 1963
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a medieval parish church. Constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings, it features a large, unbuttressed west tower, a nave, a south porch, a chancel, and a separately roofed north aisle with a northeast chapel. The church is topped with a Welsh slate roof, incorporating a corbel table and cruciform finials.

The west tower, four-storied and attached to the west nave but not the north aisle, is heavily battered at the west side below a string course. It has an embattled parapet rising from a corbel table, and small, chamfered rectangular lights to the tower chambers. The ground floor window to the north is a square-headed three-light mullioned window with diamond quarries, set under a relieving arch. A four-centred arched doorway is located on the south side. The deep south porch has a plain, pointed-arched doorway with voussoirs, and features stone seats, an unplastered wall with plaques, two arch-braced trusses, and a boarded ceiling. The main south doorway has a broadly chamfered pointed arch under a relieving arch. The south nave has a two-light window with a square hoodmould. A blocked light, likely related to a former rood-screen, is also present.

The south chancel has two windows with square hoodmoulds – one a single light, the other a double-light with cusped heads. A chamfered pointed arched narrow priests' doorway provides access, and the east window comprises two cusped lights with quatrefoil tracery. The northeast chapel, set back and constructed of different masonry, has a similar east window. The north aisle is slightly battered and features two three-light windows with chamfered lights and a shallow square hoodmould. A straight joint in the fabric is visible to the west, and a blocked square-headed opening to the east likely lit a former rood-screen and staircase. A similar window is found on the west side of the north aisle, with a chimney marking the junction of the aisle and nave at the west.

The church interior is rendered with exposed dressings. A four-bay north aisle arcade displays plain, wide-chamfered pointed arches, without capitals, supported by octagonal piers on octagonal plinths set on square bases. One northeast pier pierces the chancel wall, and an adjacent squint provides a view between the north aisle and chancel. A rood screen opening is located at the upper level to the northeast, leading to a plain pointed arch into the northeast chapel, with the rood extending across both units. The nave and aisle are covered by four-bay arched-braced roofs. The main side windows have very wide splays. A vestry is located at the west, containing monuments made of local alabaster. A pointed moulded chancel arch terminates against the wall (dating from the 19th century). The chancel features a decorative painted panel ceiling in red and white, primarily red over the sanctuary, and further painted panels flanking a reredos on the east wall, which displays raised emblems of the Passion. An encaustic tile floor is also present. An organ chamber and the Lee Chapel are situated at the northeast; the floor was inlaid in 1877, but the arch linking to the north aisle is medieval. The church holds bells cast in 1747 by William Evans, a Norman font bowl on a later plinth, and a sculptural First World War memorial.

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