Church Of St Pedrog, Llanbedrog

Heritage listing

Reason for designation: Included at Grade II* as substantially a medieval church, retaining a medieval screen and glass, and for the interesting range of C19 stained glass and monuments to the Love Parry family. History: The church is dedicated to St Pedrog, a missionary priest from Ireland who evangelised in Wales and Cornwall in the later C6. The church in Llanbedrog probably has C13 origins, the time when it first appears in the list of incumbents in the Norwich Valuation of 1254. The present single cell structure is medieval, extended or rebuilt at the E in the early C16. It benefited from the patronage of the Madryn (Love Parry) family from the C17. Repairs were carried out in 1827 (tablet in tower), and it was restored in 1865. The tower was added in 1895 by Sarah E M Williams-Jones Parry of Madryn in memory of her parents, with a vestry, the latter discreetly rebuilt and extended in 1995. Exterior: Built of large uncoursed rubble, and yellow gritstone dressings, flush pointed with lime mortar. Slated roof between raised coped gables. The nave and chancel of continuous but distinct builds. C19 windows with ogee tracery, 1- and 3-light to the nave, 2-light on the S side of the chancel, with dark igneous stone relieving arches. 2-light E window with elaborate curvilinear tracery, and a recessed panel below, having a reset late medieval cusped head. This recess contains the full arms with a shield in pretence, mantling and crest of Love Parry, all in very fine condition, inscribed to Love Parry of Cefn Llanfair, d.Sept 9 1707. On the N side 2 two-light C19 windows. The W end has a high 2-light Y-tracery window. The tower is added on the S side near the W end with the vestry attached on the W. Snecked rubble, 3 undifferentiated stages above a plinth, and a crenellated

From Cadw under OGL v3.