Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
14397
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/03/1963
Date of Amendment
15/02/1994
Name of Property
Church of Saint Teilo
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Brawdy
Town
Locality
LLANDELOY
Easting
185696
Northing
226697
Street Side
Location
Situated SW of the village street in large sloping churchyard.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Medieval origins, rebuilt from ruins in 1926 by J Coates Carter, architect of Cardiff and Penarth. Arts and Crafts style making careful use of local materials.
Exterior
Rubble stone with single slate roof. Nave and chancel, S transept and W bellcote. Tiny W window and W end rough stone 2-arch gabled bellcote. Nave N has plain arched door and long window with single stone lintel. To left, chancel is marked by wall projection for rood stair, in two slight steps, then long chancel with long narrow arched single window and then 2-light. E end has single pointed window, while chancel S is outshut with two square headed leaded lights. S transept has two S long lancets. Have S has two plain square headed windows with slab lintels. Windows generally have rough stone jambs, without ashlar.
Interior
Long and low interior with exposed stone walls, cambered tie beams to roofs and scissor-rafters. Medieval, possibly C13, octagonal font with sides splayed in to chamfered base over circular shaft. Simple open-back pews. Built out passage in N wall gives access to pulpit and to rood stair, the pulpit three-sided and simple in the angle to the screen, which is exceptionally fine with rood-loft and carved Crucifixion to front. Loft is reached by mural stair to N and closes low rough stone chancel arch. S transept has splayed NE opening into chancel. Altar with coloured gesso on timber altarpiece, brought forward. Stained glass in E window of c1926, in S transept c1926 and in nave S c1938.
Reason for designation
Church was rebuilt from ruin in 1924-6 for the Thomas family of Trehale, St Edrins. It is a rare example in W Wales of a church built according to Arts and Crafts principles, that uses the simplest available local materials without attempt at period styles.
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