13175

 

II*  

Designated  

18/09/1962  

30/03/1995  

Church of St Cadoc  

 

Vale of Glamorgan  

Barry  

 

Cadoxton  

312992  

169347  

W  

At junction of Coldbrook Road West and Brock Street in small churchyard.  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

 

Church here since C12. Present building has C13 chancel, C15 nave and tower probably at expense of local Andrew family, C16 S porch. Extensive Victorian restoration, including rebuilding of nave walls, 1885, by John Price Jones, architect, of Cardiff.  

Grey rubble, chancel rendered, slate roofs. Saddleback W tower has trefoil window to each side at belfry level, below these to S, round-headed light, then trefoil light and round-headed light at ground level; doorway to W. South gabled porch with simple pointed arched doorway, stone benches. To each side of porch, nave has windows of 3 cusped lights with square hoodmoulds, and to R, shallow rectangular stair projection; to N, nave has 2 small windows, and, to W 3-light window. Chancel (stepped down) has, to S, window of 2 cusped lights with square hoodmould; E window of 2 lights (inserted 1828); narrow window to N.  

Walls plastered, simple chamfers to exposed stones of tower and chancel arches. Stone tower stair in NE corner. Chancel has wooden altar and reredos in Decorated style (1920's; moved from St John's Church 1951); C17 communion rail with balusters, piscina beneath chancel S window. Nave has Gothic doorway to stairs to former rood-loft (SE corner of nave). Nave roof dates from 1885 restoration. Norman font with roll-mouldings.