Church of St Alban's On the Moors is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 April 1997. Church.
Church of St Alban's On the Moors
- WRENN ID
- secret-hinge-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1997
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Alban's On the Moors is a Grade II listed building constructed from Pennant sandstone with bathstone dressings, designed in a free Perpendicular style. It features a cruciform plan with a shouldered tower that has a pyramidal roof and castellated parapets. Each face of the tower includes two 2-light windows, and the north and south sides have shoulders with castellated parapets. Below these shoulders are transepts with 4-light windows. The sanctuary has two 2-light windows on its south elevation, while the east end showcases a 5-light window in the free Perpendicular style. To the north of this window, the roof slopes down to connect with an adjacent house (not included), which has two 3-light windows on each floor.
The nave's clerestory consists of five bays with triple-arched windows recessed beneath hoods, and below these, the aisles feature broad lancets. The south aisle includes a polygonal chapel with a castellated parapet and broad 2-light windows on each face of the polygon. The west front is adorned with a relief of a pelican in a tabernacle at the gable apex, accompanied by a 5-light Perpendicular window with the outer pairs of lights steeped down around the porch apex, all recessed under a hood. The west porch has a gabled central section with a saint in a tabernacle, featuring a broad arch with plain splays leading to a narrower doorway flanked by lobbies with square windows.
A southwest baptistery turret, which is two storeys high, is made of bathstone and is octagonal with a steep roof and castellated parapet. The upper level has two windows on each face of the polygon, while the lower level features cusped lancets on each face. The north elevation mirrors the south but includes a gabled porch near the west end of the nave.
Inside, the broad nave is supported by a scissor-braced roof on carved stone corbels. The aisles contain north and south central chapels, with confessionals located to the north. The glazing in the west porch is notable, and there is a former baptistery present. The sanctuary is accessed through broad segmental tower arches.
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