Eglwys Dewi Sant (Formerly Church of St. Andrew) is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. Church.

Eglwys Dewi Sant (Formerly Church of St. Andrew)

WRENN ID
frozen-thatch-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1975
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Early English Gothic church. External walls faced with multi-coloured stone rubble, bands of bathstone ashlar. Slate roofs. West end window of 2-lights with lancet window to either side; gabled former porch (now window) below, flanked to each side by a single light window. Five bay nave, low passage aisles, S porch. Clerestorey windows of ashlar pierced with 2 trefoil headed lights with quatrefoils over. Two storey bay at W end of aisles. Two-light window to single bay chancel. East window of 3 lights with geometrical tracery. Lady Chapel (S) and north transept externally with paired gabled roofs, oculus and 2 windows to each gable. To E, on S side, roof sweeps down over bay with 4 round windows. Vestry to NE angle; 3-window flat-roofed block on NW side.

Walls now colourwashed. Scissor-braced roof. Nave arcade with Romanesque foliage capitals to low columns with superarches which rise to enclose clerestorey windows. Carved wood reredos with painted panels. Painted panels in Lady Chapel. Pulpit by E P Warren, 1886; stained glass includes chancel window by Lavers & Barraud (Suffer the Little Children c 1880); annunciation in S aisle c1917, Adoration of Kings (c 1923).

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