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
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Church
- 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.