St Twrog's Church, Llandwrog

Heritage listing

Reason for designation: Listed as a fine Victorian parish church in Decorated style occupying a dominant position at the centre of the important mid-C19 planned Newborough Estate village of Llandwrog; complete high Victorian interior of exceptional quality, a remarkable essay in the ecclesiological tastes of the period. History: Built in 1856-60 on the site of the medieval church, the dimensions of which it closely follows, to the design of diocesan architect, Henry Kennedy, and paid for by the third Lord Newborough as part of his replanning of the village of Llandwrog. Exterior: Large essentially cruciform building in Decorated style comprising nave, transepts, chancel, south chancel chapel and north vestry; south-west tower has tall broach spire; vaults beneath west end and chancel. Regularly coursed and dressed rock-faced rubblestone with ashlar dressings and spire; slate roofs with stepped ashlar coping and elaborately decorated iron crosses to gables. The most prominent feature of the church is the tower and spire which project from the south-west corner of the nave, buttressed to the corners and having massive iron door with studding and decorated strap-hinges in pointed doorway on south; the tower itself is of 2 stages and has triple traceried and louvred windows with roundels above set in gabled panels to bell stage; hexagonal staircase projection with stone capped roof on east face. Above this is a string course and corbel table, from which rises the spire, tall and slender, with 2 tiers of small crocketed lucarnes. Nave has one window on south and 2 to north, all above high cill bands and of 2 lights with Decorated tracery, hoodmoulds and head-stops; similar larger window of 3 lights in west wall, below which is a straight flight of stone steps leading down to

From Cadw under OGL v3.