Parish Church of St Mary, St Mary Church

Heritage listing

History: The church has C12 origins and was rebuilt in the later C16 when the tower was added. However, the restoration in 1862 by Messrs. Prichard and Seddon, Diocesan architects, resulted in the virtual rebuilding of the church in First Pointed Victorian Gothic style with the exception of the West tower. Exterior: The church consists of a chancel, nave, south porch and west tower. Constructed of coursed limestone rubble with Welsh slated roof. The chancel roof steps down from the nave with Celtic wheel cross finials to the coped gables. The porch, chancel and nave have stone corbels with carved nail head decoration to the eaves. The E window is of three widely spaced trefoil-headed lights with hoodmould over and foliate stops. The chancel is lit on the S side by two C19 trefoil-headed windows. The S side of the nave is lit by a three-light trefoil headed window on the S side of the porch. There is a single light on right hand side of this window and a two-light trefoil-headed window on the SE end of the nave. The S porch has a C19 pointed outer arch with niche above depicting the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary by the archangel Gabriel. The inner doorway is a C16 four-centred stone doorway battered at the base, which is surmounted by a corbel with an early water stoup on the right and side. To the W of the porch is a two-light trefoil-headed window. The tower is square and battered at its base with a string course running at ground floor level. It has an embattled parapet rising from a corbel table. A projection on the S side houses the staircase and is lit by two square-headed stair lights with two further lights set within the tower at a higher level. Each face of the tower has a two-light, square-headed, louvred belfry window. The W doorway has an obtuse arch and a

From Cadw under OGL v3.