Church Hall at 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 hall.
Church Hall at St David's Church
- WRENN ID
- twisted-mortar-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Church hall
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church Hall at St David's Church is a Grade II listed building featuring snecked rubble facings, pale freestone dressings, and slate roofs. It has a plan that includes an aisled nave, a south porch, a vaulted west porch within the gable end, and 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 with a crucifix and a corbelled headstop, along with 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 and stops to the hoodmoulds are adorned with foliage trails, and the attached shafts have stiff-leaf capitals. The heavily moulded west door, which has two orders and a cusped opening, is complemented by boarded doors with strapwork hinges.
The side elevations display paired cusped lancets in the clerestory and buttressed aisles with 2-light plate tracery windows. The gabled south porch features headstops to the hoodmould. The east chancel has triple lancets beneath a quatrefoil, with an unusual buttress treatment to the central blind lancet on 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. There is a block from around 1900 to the north with extensions at the angles.
Inside, the church hall remains largely unaltered, showcasing open-rafter trussed roofs and a tall moulded chancel arch with trefoil shafts and bushy stiff-leaf capitals. The nave has 6-bay arcades 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.
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