Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 February 1963. House. 2 related planning applications.

Parish Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 February 1963
Type
House
Address
Parish Church of St Mary, Llanfair, CF71 7LT
OS grid reference
ST 001 715
Coordinates
51.43427, -3.43794
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St Mary is a building dating from the 19th century, constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a Welsh slated roof. It comprises a chancel, nave, south porch, and west tower. The chancel roof steps down from the nave, featuring Celtic wheel cross finials to the coped gables. Stone corbels with carved nail head decoration adorn the eaves of the porch, chancel, and nave. The east window incorporates three widely spaced trefoil-headed lights with an accompanying hoodmould and foliate stops. The chancel is lit on its south side by two 19th-century trefoil-headed windows. The south side of the nave has a three-light trefoil-headed window on the south side of the porch, along with a single light and a two-light trefoil-headed window on the southeast end. The south porch features a 19th-century pointed outer arch, with a niche above depicting the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary by the archangel Gabriel. The inner doorway is a 16th-century four-centred stone doorway, battered at the base, surmounted by a corbel with an early water stoup on the right side. To the west of the porch is a two-light trefoil-headed window. The square west tower is battered at its base, with a string course at ground floor level, and features an embattled parapet rising from a corbel table. A projection on the south side houses the staircase and is lit by two square-headed stair lights, with two further lights set within the tower at a higher level. Each face of the tower has a two-light, square-headed, louvred belfry window. The west doorway is topped by an obtuse arch, above which is a 16th-century three-light square-headed window set beneath a relieving arch with a simple hoodmould. The east face of the nave has a 19th-century chimney and a small square-headed light, with a blocked four-centred doorway at semi-basement level.

The chancel has a 19th-century arched, wind-braced roof with a continuous reeded ridge beam. The east end of the chancel roof is boarded and spangled with stars. The nave roof is similar to the chancel's, but unpainted. The church’s pews, stone chancel screen, altar rails, and pulpit were all added during the 19th-century restoration. The pulpit rises from a corbelled base and is banded in pink, green, and white stone with carved foliate and quatrefoil decoration. The Norman font is barrel shaped and set on a 19th-century plinth. The tower arch is round-headed and gently trefoiled with straight jambs.

Local climate

Parish Church of St Mary sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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