St Albans Church

Heritage listing

History: 1911-15 Anglican church by E M Bruce Vaughan, architect of Cardiff, in brown snecked rubble stone with Bath stone dressings and slate roofs. Exterior: Late Gothic style church of nave and aisles raised on high basement, west bellcote, elevated south porch, chancel of even height with nave, and flat-roofed south east vestries. Six-bay nave with clerestory, lean-to aisles, coped shouldered gables and tall west front with ashlar gabled bellcote of single traceried pointed arch sub-divided by centre buttress and with gabled front buttresses rising from carved corbels. Main west front is framed by buttresses with set-offs at springing level of west window and ashlar gabled caps below shoulders of main gable. Big 5-light Perp style west window, the ashlar jambs carried down to basement level, framing pair of flat-headed 3-light windows with ashlar dividing buttresses. Raised plinth. Aisle west ends have 2-light pointed windows with flowing tracery and hoodmoulds, the jambs similarly carried down to frame 2-light basement windows. Side Elevations: Clerestory has flat-headed 3-light windows, aisles 2-light pointed windows with hoodmoulds. Clerestory is framed by gabled buttresses each end and aisles have gabled buttresses between windows. Aisle upper windows have jambs carried down to frame basement lights as on west end. On south side gabled porch is reached by ashlar-faced castellated bridge over footpath with pointed arch. Embattled parapet returns east to churchyard gates. Porch is raised on basement with west pointed door and has clasping gabled south west and south east buttresses, moulded pointed south doorway, ashlar band above broken by statue niche, shouldered and coped gable with cross finial. Chancel has even roof line but slightly higher eaves, 2 long 2-li

From Cadw under OGL v3.