St David's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1988. Church.
St David's Church
- WRENN ID
- over-copper-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St David's Church, Town
- OS grid reference
- SO 049 062
- Coordinates
- 51.74689, -3.37766
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
St David's Church is a 19th-century building featuring snecked rubble facings and pale freestone dressings, topped with slate roofs. The church has a plan that includes an aisled nave, a south porch, and a vaulted west porch located within the gable end, along with a lower chancel. To the east and northeast, there are extensive hall and vestry blocks.
The west front is highlighted by an openwork gabled bellcote adorned with a crucifix and a corbelled headstop, complemented by a kneelered parapet. A depressed arch with nook shafts frames a trefoiled gable light. Corner buttresses support ashlar arcading, which features a taller central arch that groups trefoil lancets and a quatrefoil window. The spandrels display foliage trails, and the hoodmoulds have stops, while the attached shafts are topped with stiff-leaf capitals. The heavily moulded west door, consisting of two orders with a cusped opening, has boarded doors fitted with strapwork hinges.
The side elevations showcase paired cusped lancets in the clerestory and buttressed aisles with 2-light plate tracery windows. The gabled south porch has headstops on its hoodmould. The east chancel features triple lancets beneath a quatrefoil, with an unusual buttress treatment on the central blind lancet of the south wall.
An attached hall block runs at right angles to the chancel, featuring a simpler gable treatment with twin lancets facing Church Street, and a block from around 1900 to the north with extensions at the angles.
Inside, the church remains largely unaltered, showcasing open-rafter trussed roofs and a tall moulded chancel arch with trefoil shafts and bushy stiff-leaf capitals. The nave arcades consist of six bays with quatrefoil piers and moulded caps. A west gallery features a trefoil-panelled front. In 1936, new furnishings were added, including a new altar, pulpit, and choir stalls.
Local climate
St David's Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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