Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 August 1980. Church.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
muted-rampart-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Country
Wales
Date first listed
8 August 1980
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a medieval church now in ruins. The stone walls are mostly made of rubble, and it was once covered with slate roofs. The structure includes a west saddleback tower, a nave with a south porch and a north vestry, and a chancel. Currently, only the tower remains in a relatively complete state.

The west tower features battered walls and has a blocked stone-framed west doorway with a relieving arch above it. There is a small rectangular opening set high in both the west and east walls, as well as a lower rectangular slit opening in the south wall above another rectangular opening. A small circular belfry opening is located high in the north wall, complete with a stone canopy supported by corbels.

The south wall of the nave has a single light round-headed window with sunk spandrels at the west end, positioned close to the gabled south porch. The porch's rebuilt front wall is made of coursed stone and features a round-headed arch with stone voussoirs. The south-east window of the nave has two cusped ogee lights set in a square frame. The north wall of the nave includes a gabled structure, possibly a vestry, to the west, which is not shown on the 1920 Ordnance Survey map. This structure is lit by a two-light window of golden stone in its north gable. The north-west nave window consists of a cusped single light in a grey stone frame. The chancel is illuminated by a cusped single light window of golden stone in the north wall, a two-light window in the east gable, and a damaged two-light window in the south chancel wall, which has a broken dripstone and missing mullions.

The church is currently unroofed, and the interior has been lost. Access to the site is forbidden for safety reasons, and it was not possible to check the condition of the features described at the time of listing in August 1980. The church appears to be in a more damaged and fragmentary state than when it was listed and described by John Newman around 1995.

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