Church of St. Bride is a Grade II* listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 January 1956. A Medieval Church.
Church of St. Bride
- WRENN ID
- salt-glass-curlew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1956
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The church is built of local red sandstone rubble with the Victorian work showing up as more random in character; only the gable copings and the bell-cote are ashlar. The church roof is stone slates, the nave and porch were re-roofed with artificial stone slates in the 1990s. Small nave with west bell-cote, chancel, west porch. The west gable wall of the nave shows a sharp batter to both side and also that the south-west corner is a Victorian rebuild. The porch has a very sharply pointed gable but a much less sharply pointed entrance arch with hollow chamfer and stopped hoodmould, coped gable. The bell-cote is in ashlar and has two arched openings and a gabled top with apex cross. The south wall has a trefoil headed lancet in the rebuilt wall where the south porch was and a 3-light one to the right. The north wall has two 2-light trefoil headed windows; this wall was blind before the Victorian restoration. Coped gables, apex cross to east one. The chancel has a south window and an east window only; both are 2-light, square-headed, Perpendicular ones with cinquefoil heads. Coped gable with apex cross.
The interior is plastered and painted throughout. The nave roof is of close set couples with collars, the chancel has a wagon roof, and both are Victorian as is the plain chancel arch. The chancel screen was made up in 1931 using some relics of the medieval one. C12 Norman font with ropemould decoration. Reredos with two fine C15 alabaster panels, Victorian benches, C18 pulpit. Three very unusual and well preserved C17 monuments with naïve lettering commemorating the local Jones family., especially the large and detailed description dated 1624 and the undated one 'THEE THERE IS NONVPONENA CVMPARISED VNTO THEE CRISHT ALON IS MY REDIMER'.
Detailed Attributes
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