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
10231
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/11/1987
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
Eglwys St Mair
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberystwyth
Town
Locality
Easting
258300
Northing
281519
Street Side
S
Location
On a sloping island site; W end and S side to William Street and E end overlooking George Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Begun in 1863-6 by William Butterfield on land given by Col Powell of Nanteos to serve the Welsh speaking members of the established church, cost £2,212.
Exterior
Small Victorian early Decorated church; chancel and slightly higher aisled nave with NW porch and W bellcote. Rubble masonry with freestone dressings, banding and gable parapets.
Buttressed E end; 3 light window with hoodmould and stepped cill band, 2 cusped recesses below. Corbelled chimney breast to S side of chancel with stack removed; 2-light window and shouldered doorway to left. N aisle overlaps the chancel to incorporate the vestry with transomed window. 2-light double cusped aisle windows below clerestory of alternating paired lancets and paired lozenge shaped lights. Diagonal buttresses to porch, quatrefoil over boarded doors within. Gabled W front, advanced centre rises to twin arched bellcote; 2-light grouped trefoil headed W window flanked by lancets over boarded door entrance with gable parapet over, formerly to porch ?; 2-light trefoil headed aisle W windows.
Interior
Whitewashed interior. 5-bay nave with plain chamfered arcades and shouldered clerestory openings. Timber trusses with pointed arch windbraces rising from paired corbels below wall plate. Gilded lettering to chancel arch on moulded capitals; 2-bay chancel with similar truss rising from corbelled wall shafts; traceried panelling to roof over altar, Gothic fittings including gilded and painted octagonal font and cusped piscina, patterned reredos. Some stained glass by Alfred Hemming 1903.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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