Church of St Francis Xavier and St David Lewis is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 2004. Church.

Church of St Francis Xavier and St David Lewis

WRENN ID
errant-cinder-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 April 2004
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Francis Xavier and St David Lewis, Usk
OS grid reference
SO 375 010
Coordinates
51.70442, -2.90446
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Francis Xavier and St David Lewis is a church featuring a nave and south aisle with four bays, a chancel, a vestry, a north porch, and a north tower. It is constructed of old red sandstone with coursed bathstone dressings and has slate roofs. The church is designed in the Decorated Gothic style.

The west window is a three-light Geometrical style design. The gabled porch includes diagonal buttresses and a quatrefoil window on the right wall, with stone benches inside. There is a narrow Gothic doorway leading into the church, accompanied by a stoup on the right. Between the porch and the tower, there are two two-light plate tracery windows. The later tower features a steep pavilion slate roof with lucarnes and two-light Decorated style windows in the bell stage, which is recessed and supported by angle buttresses. The vestry is located at the northeast corner and includes a chimney, a two-light dormer, and a three-light window on the ground floor. Clasping buttresses are present at the east end, which also has a three-light Geometrical style east window. The north aisle contains four two-light plate tracery windows, with a similar window at the west end of the aisle.

Inside, the nave roof is supported by thin scissor braces and wall posts. The south aisle features a four-bay arcade with octagonal piers. The inner order of the chancel arch rests on floral corbels, and the chancel has a wagon roof. The church contains stained glass, including an east window depicting the risen Christ flanked by Saints, created by Hardman in 1857. The south window of the chancel, depicting the Virgin with the Boy presented to her, is also by Hardman, dating from around 1862. In the south aisle, the east window shows the Annunciation and was made by Wailes in the 1850s. The southeast window of the aisle features Saints by H Beiler of Heidelberg, created around 1908.

Local climate

Church of St Francis Xavier and St David Lewis receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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