Church of St. John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. Church.

Church of St. John the Baptist

WRENN ID
tilted-jade-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1975
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

The church is built of polychromatic random rubble, mostly a refacing or rebuilding of the medieval walls by Prichard, Welsh slate roof with stone bell-cote with trefoiled openings to west gable. Nave with south porch, chancel with north vestry. The nave has two windows on the south wall, a single light trefoil headed one to the left of the porch and a 2-light one to the right. These are repeated on the north wall and there is a single light one on the west gable. The porch has a pointed arch, coped gable and gable cross. The chancel Perpendicular style east window has 3-lights; south chancel wall with two windows, a 2-light one to the left and a single light one to the right, both plate tracery with trefoil heads. North chancel wall covered by vestry which has a 2-light plain window and a doorway, single light window in east return. Coped gables with crosses, tall cylindrical vestry chimney on north slope of nave gable.

Walls plastered and painted throughout, c2000. The interior is of a much more medieval character than the exterior, particularly the window arches and the possibly late C14 chancel arch with its battered sides. Six bay roof to the nave, arch braced tie-beam with moulded main beams; four bay C19 waggon roof in the chancel. Medieval limestone font. The pews are Victorian, the pulpit mid C20. The chancel window is dated 1915 and may have replaced a triple lancet. Some good memorials, especially two in the chancel, one signed E Morgan, Canton and the other H Woodcott, Bristol.

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