Church of St Saviour is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 February 1952. Industrial.

Church of St Saviour

WRENN ID
silver-hearth-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 February 1952
Type
Industrial
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Saviour is a church constructed from pink-grey Sweldon stone with bathstone dressings and slate roofs, featuring early Perpendicular window tracery. It has a low nave flanked by aisles that create three joined gables at the west end. A bell-cote is positioned over the west gable end of the nave, which includes a three-light Perpendicular window and a simple Gothic doorway. The south-west porch contains a west doorway, along with two entrance doorways leading into the church. The nave is distinguished from the aisles by stepped buttresses, and the aisles feature two-light windows, with the north aisle also having a Gothic doorway.

The north elevation consists of nine bays separated by flat buttresses, with a northwest window of two lights, followed by four bays of single lights, then three bays of two lights, and one bay of three lights leading to the northeast chapel. The west elevation showcases three gables, a five-light window to the chancel, and a window of three cusped lights on the south return of the chancel. The south aisle gable is set back over a flat-roofed vestry, with three-light windows in the aisle gables.

The church has a five-bay nave and a three-bay chancel, both of similar height, with two side aisles each containing a chapel at the east end, parallel to the chancel. The roofs are boarded wagons, painted in the nave and aisles. The nave arcade features low pointed arches supported by four shafts and four hollows, with simplified capitals in the south aisle. The arches between the chancel and chapels are continuously moulded, and the chancel arch is flanked by shafts. There is a flight of steps leading to the high altar, which has a wooden reredos and doorways to the vestry behind. Three arches on the chancel sides open into the chapels.

In the south aisle chapel, there is a painted wooden screen and an altar with angels on the flanking shafts. The chancel features a painted and gilded organ case designed by Bodley. At the west end, the nave is divided into a hall by a screen in the Bodley style, with the hall being top-lit by light from the west window. The east window contains stained glass from 1898 by Burlison & Grylls, following Bodley's designs, while the south aisle features windows of St Germain and St Margaret by the same team. The northeast chapel's east window is by Geoffrey Webb, and the north aisle includes two windows by Roper from 1963. An octagonal stone font is also present.

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