St. Machreth's Church, Llanfachreth

Heritage listing

Reason for designation: Included for its monuments associated with the Nannau estate, and early C19 tower. History: Medieval site on which a new church was constructed in the early C19 under the patronage of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nannau, Bart.; faculty granted 10th March 1820. All save the tower was again rebuilt in 1872 in plain Early English style to the designs of Benjamin Ferrey, architect and at cost of 1,300. Exterior: Rubble construction, snecked to nave and chancel and with sandstone dressings. Medium-pitched slate roofs with plain eaves cornice, ridge tiles and gable crosses. Plain gabled Sporch with flush flanking butresses; 4-centred-arched entrance, stopped-chamfered and with inner arch; pointed-arched inner entrance with boarded double doors. To the R of the porch, 2 arched plate tracery windows with oculi; stepped buttresses in between. To the R, a plain chamfered lancet. Further buttress at intersection of nave with chancel. Chancel stepped-down and set back slightly. 2 lancets as before though with inner roll moulding. Stepped buttress, flush with E end. 3 light E window with returned labels to arched lights; foliate stops. 3 plate windows and one lancet as before to nave N side and one further lancet to chancel. Gabled vestry with plain pointed-arched window to N gable. Extruded porch between chancel and nave with plain arched entrance and recessed boarded door. Early C19 rubble W tower with dressed stone spire; in rustic Romanesque style. Round-arched entrance with label and modern boarded door and tympanum; Similar 2-light window above with later brick infill and further arched windows to upper floor, again reduced. Stepped and parapeted access to first-floor boarded entrance on N side. The tower has plain string courses and shaved sides. Oc

From Cadw under OGL v3.