Church of Saint Llywel is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 November 1980. Church.

Church of Saint Llywel

WRENN ID
salt-pillar-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 November 1980
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of Saint Llywel is a parish church built from rubble stone and features stone tiled roofs, coped gables, a west bellcote, and a south porch. It is a single-cell structure. The west bellcote has two Tudor-arched openings, while the west wall has a battered base and a gable with a tiny arched light of uncertain date, possibly early medieval. The south porch, which is stone-tiled, has a depressed arched entry likely from the 19th century, along with 19th-century loops on each side. The first south window is a flat-headed 19th-century design with ogee tracery, resembling the originals at Llangeview church. Following this is a projection for a rood stair with stone coping and a small loop, then a narrow Tudor-arched chancel door with a stopped chamfered surround. To the right, a rebuilt wall features another 19th-century two-light window in the Perpendicular style made of Bath stone. The east window is a 19th-century three-light design with cusped stepped lights. The north wall has been entirely rebuilt in the 19th century using rock-faced stone, and it includes a 19th-century single light and two-light flat-headed windows with deep hoodmoulds, as well as one tiny arched light that may be early medieval.

Inside the porch, there are two stone seats, a damaged stoup on the right side, and a panel roof made up of four by three panels, with some ribs that appear to be late medieval. The lintel of the south door is a medieval inscribed slab featuring a six-petal flower in a roundel to the right, with incised lines running left and fish-scale patterning above.

The interior consists of a single cell with walls stripped of plaster and a panelled barrel roof made up of six by thirteen panels, which are likely all from the 19th century. The window rear arches are in ashlar and date to the 19th century, while the tiny single lights on the north and west walls have rubble stone deep splays, presumably medieval. The south wall of the chancel steps in, with a straight section to the left that includes a window, a door, and a narrow Tudor-arched door leading to the rood stair. There are three steps with 19th-century encaustic tiles and a 19th-century screen, along with early 20th-century chancel rails. The round medieval font has been significantly retooled. The east window features stained glass depicting the Lamb of God, created around 1898 by A.L. Moore of London. Memorials at the west end commemorate A. Waddington of Glen Court, who died in 1874, in a Gothic style signed by J. Thomas of Newport, and Maria Waddington, who passed away in 1848, signed by Woollcott of Bristol.

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