Church of St Thomas a Becket is a Grade II* listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 August 1955. Dwelling.

Church of St Thomas a Becket

WRENN ID
solitary-quoin-jet
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 August 1955
Type
Dwelling
Source
Cadw listing

Description

The church is built of coursed local rubble of red/grey sandstone grading into conglomerate. The walls are partly battered which suggests an early date. The roofs are covered in Welsh slates. The plan is nave, separate chancel, west tower and south porch. The nave has a 2-light window with trefoil headed lights to the left of the porch and a single light and a 3-light one on the right, the rear wall has two 2-light ones, the right hand one of which is renewed and cuts into the head of the blocked north door. Coped gables and tiled ridge. Gabled south porch with a partly reconstructed pointed arch, the inner porch door is a Victorian reconstruction. The chancel has a much lower ridge line, South door and 2-light window, blind north wall, 2-light decorated east window with quatrefoil. Coped gable with cross. West tower of two stages, the upper stage is diminished and is probably a later heightening. Lancet low down on the west wall, one on north wall at high level. The upper stage has a 2-light belfry opening on each face, saddle-back roof with coped gables. The ghost of the previous nave ridge line survives on the east face.

Plain whitewashed interior with mostly Victorian fittings and furnishings. The font is an assembly of disparate pieces. The tower arch is closed with a plank screen. The chancel was 'furnished, panelled and adorned with stained glass' in 1924. The roofs are close set collar trusses with raking supports. These and the chancel arch are Victorian. There are said to be three bells dated 1607, 1680 and 1682, all were recast in 1914. The nave windows are 1949 memorials to WWII.

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