Church Of Our Lady Of Peace And Attached Presbytery

Heritage listing

Reason for designation: Listed II* as an early- mid C20 RC church of especially effective design and atmospheric interior in a commanding position. History: Built late 1930s by P D Hepworth, an architect educated in Paris and Rome who worked in S Wales in 1930s (eg St David s RC, Maesglas, Newport]. Exterior: The complex consists of a tall basilica style church aligned roughly N/S, the chancel facing S, with attached campanile style bell tower; attached at front is a small single storey wing housing the sacristy which in turn is attached to the Presbytery or Priest s House. Built of brick, rendered and painted, with grey pantile roof with overhanging eaves. The 5-storey bell tower at SW has narrow dividing string courses, small staircase lights and a bell chamber with 4 round-arched openings with moulded surrounds giving views of the bells, each with a small wrought iron balcony with brackets; conical roof with metal cross. The lancet windows have deeply splayed sills and the roundels moulded surrounds. The church has 5 long narrow lights at clerestory level to nave; on E side the bays are separated at lower level by triangular buttresses, on W side the pitched roof aisle has roundel windows separated by pilasters. Roundels at clerestory level to chancel with lancets below and a large cross in the blank gable end. At N side, a small single storey 5 sided baptistry with small round-headed lights; above is a large round window with stepped surround and iron PX motif in apex. Attached to S is the single storey sacristy range with hipped roofs, round arched and roundel windows and separate round arched entrance. The attached presbytery in the same materials with grey brick stacks has a 4-window range of horned sashes with shutters and a central gabled porch; set on the hill

From Cadw under OGL v3.